From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 17 16:31:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-12.mail.demon.net (finch-post-12.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6523914C4E for ; Sat, 17 Jul 1999 16:31:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk) Received: from ragnet.demon.co.uk ([158.152.46.40]) by finch-post-12.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 115duY-000JjW-0C; Sat, 17 Jul 1999 23:30:31 +0000 Received: from dmlb by ragnet.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 2.12 #1) id 115ZHR-000PDd-00; Sat, 17 Jul 1999 19:33:49 +0100 Content-Length: 754 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199907171529.IAA74679@apollo.backplane.com> Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 19:33:49 +0100 (BST) From: Duncan Barclay To: Matthew Dillon Subject: Re: poor ethernet performance? Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, crypt0genic , Bill Paul , Vincent Poy Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 17-Jul-99 Matthew Dillon wrote: > > Obviously you don't get square waves going down the wire - But it is > still a digital communications protocol. > > -Matt However the physical layer, i.e. the cable, is analogue and the discussion was about cables. To carry your reasoning a bit further - a digital cellular phone system is not an RF/Wireless system because the data is digital. I hope we agree that it is! Duncan --- ________________________________________________________________________ Duncan Barclay | God smiles upon the little children, dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk | the alcoholics, and the permanently stoned. ________________________________________________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message