On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 03:34:37PM +1300, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > > if two 100 Mbit machines connect to a 100 Mbit hub then they can > > communitate at full speed. > Yes, that is obvious. But a) Nick asked specifically for a network > with both 10 and 10/100 cards, and b) I said "drop to lowest common > denominator". The lowest common denominator of 100 and 100 is still 100... > so I stand by my statement.
yes, but you did not make clear if you meant the lowest common denominator between two machines talking to each other, or among all machines connected to the hub. i understood the latter and thought you meant the hub will only do 100 if all of the machines can do 100. add one 10 and it drops to 10 for all. > As a minor point, a machine with a 10 card and a machine with a 100 > (not 10/100) card connected via a hub won't talk with each other. but a good point, i didn't think about it before, but only since you mentioned it, i realized there must be a reason why some cards advertize to be 10/100. now it's abvious. case in point though, is there a way to make them talk? (i guess a switch (or maybe even a hub) could do the translation) greetings, martin. -- by the end of 2001 i'd like to find a new job anywhere in the world, doing pike development, training, roxen/caudium and unix system administration. -- pike programmer Traveling in Korea (www|db).hb2.tuwien.ac.at unix (iaeste|bahai).or.at (www.archlab|iaeste).tuwien.ac.at systemadministrator (stuts|black.linux-m68k).org mud.at is.(schon.org|root.at) Martin B"ahr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/
