From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Oct 7 22:58:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA26335 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 22:58:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [207.153.65.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA26258 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 22:57:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id BAA29927; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 01:57:39 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 01:57:39 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Richard Foulk cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Full duplex ethernet In-Reply-To: <199810072350.NAA20011@pegasus.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Richard Foulk wrote: > I've gotten reports from several places saying that in practice, > switched full-duplex 10BT is faster than half-duplex hub-based 100BT. I think that it only be intuitive deduction that this would be the case. I think the original poster was trying to point out that the real world difference b/t 10meg half duplex switched and 10 meg full duplex switched was not as great as one might think and in a great number of cases a really trivial difference. Since most 'switches' will support half and full, and any of the good cards should support 10/100 half and full, turning on 'full-duplex' can at worst case, only give you warm fuzzies. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | 78 280Z | 75 164E | 84 245DL | FreeBSD/NetBSD/Sprite/VMS | | winter@jurai.net | This Space For Rent | ix86,sparc,m68k,pmax,vax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | Are you k-rad elite enough for my webpage? | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message