I believe there is a handshake going on with the switch & NIC
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Holden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 11:33 PM
Subject: switch flow control
> There is one thing that confuses me about switches. If you have a switch
> with a 100Mb port and 10Mb port and the 100 starts sending data to the 10
> how does the sending station keep from overflowing the buffer on the
switch
> since there in now flow control at layer 2?
>
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