Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 19:33:49 +0100 (BST) From: Duncan Barclay <dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, crypt0genic <crypt0genic@ecad.org>, Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>, Vincent Poy <vince@venus.GAIANET.NET> Subject: Re: poor ethernet performance? Message-ID: <XFMail.990717193349.dmlb@computer.my.domain> In-Reply-To: <199907171529.IAA74679@apollo.backplane.com>
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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
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