Preface every statement with "IIRC": On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 10:34:55AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi all, > > In mucking around with the mii-tools from Donald Becker, I noticed in > the man page that you can set a fixed speed for your card. The > choices given are: > > 100baseT4 The "original" 100Mbit. Used 4 pairs? Not used anymore, or at least by anything modern.
> 100baseTx > 100baseTx-FD > 100baseTx-HD What we would consider "standard" 100Mbit. The Tx has nothing to do with transmit. > 10baseT > 10baseT-FD > 10baseT-HD Good 'ol 10BT. If you think this is confusing, wait till you get to Gig-E over fiber. Would you like multi-mode or single-mode fiber? How about at least 3 different kinds of connectors? -Mark > What is 100baseT4? And why would you set a speed of 100baseTx-HD. > Is that really setting only the transmit speed to 100MB/HD? Why/when > would you ever have a situation where you'd need tx at HD, and rx at > FD? Or vice-versa, and why not have a 100baseRx-HD setting? > > Anyone understand this better than I do? (btw, I search Scyld.com for > answers, and either couldn't find them, or looked in the wrong place :) _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
