Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 13:00:18 -0700 From: Joe McGuckin <joe@via.net> To: dave@persprog.com Cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DEC PCI CHIP QUESTION Message-ID: <199609192000.NAA12278@monk.via.net>
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> From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> > > We just bought an ethernet switch that can configure it's ports as full > > duplex. > > And so did I... :-) > > Which one did you get? I just love new toys! ====================================== When philosophy conflicts with reality, choose reality. Dave Alderman -- dave@persprog.com ====================================== ----- End Included Message ----- We got the USR (formerly AmberWave?) etherswitch. PROS: Inexpensive buyin: Ports come on plug-in cards. So we started out with 8 10-base-t ports. Fiber, 10-base-2 and 10-base-100 cards are available also. CONS: The unit is not as compact as some of the others we've looked at (e.g. Linkswitch 1000). For some of our POPs where leased rack space is at a premium we may go with a 3com. On our network here at the office, we saw ping times to a neighboring network go from 150ms to 50ms or below. We have a heavily loaded web server being fed from here and collisions of this network are a problem. We put one at another POP that has problems. We saw some improvement, but not as dramatic. Out conclusion was that although collisions a a factor there the real problem is that we've run out of bandwidth. These boxes can't perform miracles.
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