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SMT FDDI on SUN servers

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From: Sylvain Bazin STNA 7SO p8048 BD2...
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 07:18
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Hello there,

I'm testing the FDDI technology on SUN severs using the SUN FDDI board with 
a VME interface. I have problems with SMT layer of these servers ans I can't 
figure out whether. I did something wrong or the SUN's implementation is bugged.
Has anybody already met such problems and knows the solution ? I would be grateful for any help.
The following ones :

1 : No answer to a SMT ECHO NIF type frame is received when such a frame is sent 
on the network.

2 : Some thing with REQUEST type frames.

3 : When you cut the power for a bypass on a server, a beacon process is sent on the B ring and then (at physical level) ring A and ring B are at state "active" alternatively.

4 : No checking of the values of T_req, T_max and T_min is made when these values are modified with the fddi_eeprom command.

5 : The ring_map command is never ending (probably because of the lack of answers to "request" frames).

Thank you in advance for any comment.

Please, use the mail for to response.
 
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