[rescue] u2 drive trays
Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez
lefa at ucsc.edu
Tue Aug 19 04:36:11 CDT 2003
> Exactly. It's a *switch*. My FDDI switch gets 800Mbps. FDDI is rated to
> 100Mbps. You should be able to get 100Mbps on ethernet with a hub. It
> just doesn't work.
Yes that is correct, in switched ethernet you still get plenty of
collisions (ergo contention) between nodes, since even though
theoretically you are establishing a point to point connection, there is
no provision to ensure that any of the two ports involved try to use the
bus at the same time. FDDI has a tokened approach, so no contention is
possible since one of the ends seizes the bus and the other end is aware
of that.
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