Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 15:18:19 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: Greg Lane <gregory.lane@anu.edu.au>, ertr1013@student.uu.se, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pathetic 11 kbytes/s with ed driver (Netgear EA201) Message-ID: <20020102151819.A79420@grumpy.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <200201022059.g02Kxtd02324@ptavv.es.net>; from oberman@es.net on Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 12:59:54PM -0800 References: <20020102123339.B10548@grumpy.dyndns.org> <200201022059.g02Kxtd02324@ptavv.es.net>
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On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 12:59:54PM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 12:33:39 -0600 > > From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> > > > > OK, I abreviated my thoughts too much when writing. If you have a hub > > then there is no point in investigating futher because you have to run > > half duplex on the hub. But if you are connecting only one machine to > > another (point to point, crossed cable or thin ethernet, no hub or > > switch) then you can run full duplex but might have to run full duplex > > on both. > > Not really. Point-to-point on thin Ethernet (10Base2) is half-duplex > only. All signaling shares a common path and full duplex depends on > being able to transmit while receiving. It normally requires: > 1. Direct connection via cross-over cable > 2. Direct connection via point2point cable to a switch Duh, I knew that. Thanks for correcting me. Replied before I had my daily dose of caffine. I'll wake up and fully recover from the holidays in the next couple of weeks. :-) -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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