[rescue] Long network paths

[Dave McGuire]

On August 5, George Adkins wrote:
> > Well, fast stuff to wireless goes Unmanaged 10/100 switch - 3Com 10bT
> > switch - firewall/router to get out, or the last step 3Com - Airport to
> > get wireless.  Since I have nothing but 10bT and 100bTX and 802.11b,
> > everything of similar speed plugs into the same box, no Token Ring or
> > [CF]DDI.  Of course I have some stuff that uses AUI-10bT transcievers,
> > does that count?  And when I build my computer building that will be a
> > 100bFX fiber link to the house, which would technically add two more
> > hops.
> 
> Dude, go FDDI, it's much better (doesn't collapse under saturation > 45%)

  Absolutely.  And that 4470-byte MTU makes things very tasty for things
like cache hits from your local Squid box.

         -Dave

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