Re: (ASCEND) max6k 100Mb FD?

["Mike Hughes" <mike@dircon.net>]

On 11 Jun 98 at 11:04, Ian Cowley wrote:

> Mike Hughes wrote:
> > 
> > CRopped................
> 
> > As far as I know, CSMA/CD rules are implemented in 100Base-T FDX
> > anyway, so there is a feedback system of some sort - but in a
> > swictched FDX network, there will be no need for it. Quite why anyone
> > would wish to try running a shared 100Base-T FDX network is beyond
> > me.
> 
> Full Duplex doesn't use the normal CSMA/CD process and thus you
> can't use it in Shared media at all.
> 
> > 
> Cropped .............

Oops!

I was getting confused with the flowcontrol you can sometimes get on 
switches (Cisco Cat 1900s spring to mind - having just installed 
another this morning).

/me pulls foot out of large bucket of crap....

Mike
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