At 05:48 AM 3/7/00 , Jon Lindgren wrote:
>Sorry for the cross post.
>
>I need to run a FDDI card in one of my i386 or alpha servers to interface
>to an older switch.  From what I can tell, the DEFPA card is the only FDDI
>card supported.  Does anyone actively use these cards?  Are they
>reliable?  Also, does anyone have a decent source for them?  I could only
>find one...

They are showing up on Ebay occasionally.  DEFPAs, DEFTAs, and DEFEAs all
work fine.

>I might be able to use my turbochannel machine for such a purpose, but I
>need a 100BTX port on the machine to bridge my switch into the FDDI
>port.  So I think I need to run this on a PCI based machine.

I've never head of a Fast Ether TC card so a PCI based machine is your
best bet.
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