Re: OT crossover cable speed

2002-03-27 Thread Matthew Twomey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Switches don't really have collisions per-say - in an ethenet sense. Most consumer small swithes experience what's called head-of-line blocking, however. This is the case when a frame is queued to go out a particular port which is busy, behind this fra

Re: OT crossover cable speed

2002-03-27 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 11:09:00PM -0500, Jason Healy wrote: > At 1017245979s since epoch (03/26/02 22:19:39 -0500 UTC), Crispin Wellington > wrote: > > Of course theres collisions. But switch <-> Computer has collisions > > too. > > Unless you're running in full duplex (both crossover and switch

Re: OT crossover cable speed

2002-03-27 Thread Juhan Kundla
Ühel ilusal päeval [26.03.2002] kirjutas dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 06:50:06AM -0500, Jason M. Harvey wrote: > | On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 01:16:01AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > | | > | | On 25-Mar-2002 Rob VanFleet wrote: > | | > Sorry this has nothing to do with De

Re: OT crossover cable speed

2002-03-26 Thread Jason Healy
At 1017245979s since epoch (03/26/02 22:19:39 -0500 UTC), Crispin Wellington wrote: > Of course theres collisions. But switch <-> Computer has collisions > too. Unless you're running in full duplex (both crossover and switches support this mode, so long as the NIC/switch at each end both support

Re: OT crossover cable speed

2002-03-26 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 17:56, Rob VanFleet wrote: > Sorry this has nothing to do with Debian, but I'm at a loss as to where > else to ask (if it matters, both machines are running Debian ). > > I am looking to connect two machines, one will be connected to the > outside network, the other connected

Re: OT crossover cable speed

2002-03-26 Thread Jason M. Harvey
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 11:29:10AM -0600, dman wrote: | On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 06:50:06AM -0500, Jason M. Harvey wrote: | | On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 01:16:01AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: | | | | | | On 25-Mar-2002 Rob VanFleet wrote: | | | > Sorry this has nothing to do with Debian, but I'm

Re: OT crossover cable speed

2002-03-26 Thread dman
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 06:50:06AM -0500, Jason M. Harvey wrote: | On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 01:16:01AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: | | | | On 25-Mar-2002 Rob VanFleet wrote: | | > Sorry this has nothing to do with Debian, but I'm at a loss as to where | | > else to ask (if it matters, both ma

Re: OT crossover cable speed

2002-03-26 Thread CaT
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 10:16:42AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 10:55:05PM +1100, CaT wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 03:56:51AM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: > > > don't want to use a switch for just two machines, but I am wondering if > > > a crossover cable has any s

Re: OT crossover cable speed

2002-03-25 Thread dsr
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 10:55:05PM +1100, CaT wrote: > On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 03:56:51AM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: > > don't want to use a switch for just two machines, but I am wondering if > > a crossover cable has any speed disadvantages as opposed to a small > > switch. These machines will c

Re: OT crossover cable speed

2002-03-25 Thread CaT
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 03:56:51AM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: > don't want to use a switch for just two machines, but I am wondering if > a crossover cable has any speed disadvantages as opposed to a small > switch. These machines will constantly be transferring data, so I would A switch will giv

Re: OT crossover cable speed

2002-03-25 Thread Jason M. Harvey
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 01:16:01AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: | | On 25-Mar-2002 Rob VanFleet wrote: | > Sorry this has nothing to do with Debian, but I'm at a loss as to where | > else to ask (if it matters, both machines are running Debian ). | > | > I am looking to connect two machines,

Re: OT crossover cable speed

2002-03-25 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 25-Mar-2002 Rob VanFleet wrote: > Sorry this has nothing to do with Debian, but I'm at a loss as to where > else to ask (if it matters, both machines are running Debian ). > > I am looking to connect two machines, one will be connected to the > outside network, the other connected to it via a

OT crossover cable speed

2002-03-25 Thread Rob VanFleet
Sorry this has nothing to do with Debian, but I'm at a loss as to where else to ask (if it matters, both machines are running Debian ). I am looking to connect two machines, one will be connected to the outside network, the other connected to it via a second NIC. I really don't want to use a swit