Re: Bridging two Ethernet LAN segments with FDDI: possible options?

On 10/10/10 20:00, Robert Heller wrote:
I have my LAN in two buildings, about 100' apart. Right now I have a
100' CAT5 cable running between the two buildings. This *mostly*
works, but 100' of Ethernet cable is pretty much right on the limit for
a reliable network.

I would *like* to run a FDDI (fiber optic) cable and use a pair a PCI
FDDI cards (easy to get on E-Bay), but recently discovered that it is
not possible to create a software bridge between (copper) Ethernet NICs
and FDDI NICs, due to low-level differences (stuff like endianness of
the MAC addresses and packet sizes). What alternitive options do I
have? I know it would be trivial to just route the two LAN segments,
but then they would effectively be two separate LANs.


Some sort of tunnel/VPN like solution?

But why not just use etehrnet-fibre media converters - some low end ones are pretty cheap:


http://www.google.co.uk/products?q=ethernet+fibre+media+converter&hl=en&scoring=p

HTH

Tim
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