[SunRescue] Catalyst 2100 switch

Bill Bradford rescue at sunhelp.org
Tue Jun 5 11:42:04 CDT 2001


On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 12:20:19PM -0400, James Sharp wrote:
> I used to impress people by playing "name that connection speed" just by
> listening to the handshaking.  Not that it's all that hard to do, but some
> people are just easily impressed.

Yeah, I used to be able to listen to a handshake and go "okay, 28.8... no..
26.4... no... 21.6.  crap."  You can definitely hear it re-train for a lower
speed.

> its when I could start judging link quality by listening to the data
> stream that I started scaring myself.

Now *thats* scary.

Bill

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX



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