On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, Admin-Eng wrote:
>Why full duplex whould be off ? I though in operate faster in full duplex
>mode 

Full duplex only makes sense if you have a dedicated link between exactly two
systems. It then lets each of those two systems send to the other concurrently.
When you have more than two systems, and they all send to each other one, it is
necessary to use half duplex.

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