[geeks] bye bye Cisco...

[Phil Stracchino]

Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 11:40:47AM -0400, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> 
>>I was pretty surprised that Cisco wouldn't have full-duplex support in
>>their system, given that the 2820 series switch I have, same vintage,
>>does support both half and full duplex connections.
> 
> 
> 10BaseT full duplex is sorta oddball.  I've never seen it used in a 
> production environment in eleven years of doing computers for a living..
> 
> 100BaseT FDX, yes.  Not 10BaseT, though.

I've used 10FDX on a Sparc LX doing firewall work with OpenBSD.  There
was at that time (and may still be) a bug in the OpenBSD hme driver, and
I could actually get more data through the le at 10FDX than through the
hme at 100FDX.


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