Re: dc0 wierdness with Compex Freedomline

2000-02-25 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000 10:21:31 -0700, Chris Wasser [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The theoretical maximum for 100BaseT-FDX (which is 200Mbps) is 25MB/s (megabytes per second), 100BaseT-TX is 12MB/s [FYI: Mbps-MB/s you divide by 8] I realize my punctuation may be off, but there you are.

Re: dc0 wierdness with Compex Freedomline

2000-02-25 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 02:07:40PM -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote: On Thu, 24 Feb 2000 10:21:31 -0700, Chris Wasser [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Assuming you mean ``100BASE-T (half duplex)'' here... This is not quite right. In a CSMA/CD medium access protocol, like that used by Ethernet, the

Re: dc0 wierdness with Compex Freedomline

2000-02-25 Thread Pascal Hofstee
On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 01:25:59AM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: There was a patch of DC21143 chips it seems that has a very strange thermal problem. Can you tell me what your hub link lite is doing when you see this major slow down? Nope ... as this machine is connected directly to the

Re: dc0 wierdness with Compex Freedomline

2000-02-25 Thread Brad Knowles
At 1:13 AM -0800 2000/2/25, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: So infact the Layer 2 maximal data rate of 100BaseTX is 97.5929Mb/s or 12.1912MB/s. I'll leave the Layer 3 to 7 calculation up to the reader, as I am a hardware geek and I showed you how to do the calculations at the hardwire layer,

Re: dc0 wierdness with Compex Freedomline

2000-02-25 Thread Garrett Wollman
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 01:13:51 -0800 (PST), "Rodney W. Grimes" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: [I wrote:] quite right. In a CSMA/CD medium access protocol, like that used by Ethernet, the actual capacity of the link is always(*) somewhat less than 100%; the exact value depends on the precise

Re: dc0 wierdness with Compex Freedomline

2000-02-25 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 01:25:59AM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: There was a patch of DC21143 chips it seems that has a very strange thermal problem. Can you tell me what your hub link lite is doing when you see this major slow down? Nope ... as this machine is connected directly

Re: dc0 wierdness with Compex Freedomline

2000-02-25 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 01:13:51 -0800 (PST), "Rodney W. Grimes" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: [I wrote:] quite right. In a CSMA/CD medium access protocol, like that used by Ethernet, the actual capacity of the link is always(*) somewhat less than 100%; the exact value depends on the precise

Re: dc0 wierdness with Compex Freedomline

2000-02-25 Thread Garrett Wollman
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 09:53:37 -0800 (PST), "Rodney W. Grimes" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I specifically excluded P(coll) by stating point to point or effectively point to point via switching. Rod, please bother to READ what people write before spewing nonsense. The original question asked

Re: dc0 wierdness with Compex Freedomline

2000-02-25 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 09:53:37 -0800 (PST), "Rodney W. Grimes" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I specifically excluded P(coll) by stating point to point or effectively point to point via switching. Rod, please bother to READ what people write before spewing nonsense. I did read it, and did not

Re: dc0 wierdness with Compex Freedomline

2000-02-25 Thread Garrett Wollman
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 10:28:15 -0800 (PST), "Rodney W. Grimes" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I answered SPECIFICALLY about half-duplex. The duplex does not in any way effect the maximal link layer transmission data rate. You seem to keep forgetting the maximal part... The maximum for full-duplex

Re: dc0 wierdness with Compex Freedomline

2000-02-25 Thread Garrett Wollman
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 11:08:24 -0800 (PST), "Rodney W. Grimes" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The maximum for full-duplex is utterly irrelevant, since the bounds on performance for half-duplex Ethernet networks come from CSMA/CD. I will say it one last time, duplex falls out of the equations when

Re: dc0 wierdness with Compex Freedomline

2000-02-25 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 11:08:24 -0800 (PST), "Rodney W. Grimes" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The maximum for full-duplex is utterly irrelevant, since the bounds on performance for half-duplex Ethernet networks come from CSMA/CD. I will say it one last time, duplex falls out of the equations

Re: dc0 wierdness with Compex Freedomline

2000-02-24 Thread Pascal Hofstee
On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 02:07:40PM -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote: On Thu, 24 Feb 2000 10:21:31 -0700, Chris Wasser [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Assuming you mean ``100BASE-T (half duplex)'' here... This is not quite right. In a CSMA/CD medium access protocol, like that used by Ethernet, the actual

Re: dc0 wierdness with Compex Freedomline

2000-02-24 Thread sthaug
Ok ... we all know what exactly should be theoretical maximum and all ... but that wasn't exactly my question ... I have having weird problems with the network performance permanently dropping to below 100 kB/s (while still in 100 Mbps/FDX). Is there anybody that could give a plausible

Re: dc0 wierdness with Compex Freedomline

2000-02-24 Thread sthaug
No, it is not. It is 100Mbps upstream and 100Mbps downstream. You cannot get 200Mbps in one direction. FDX (Full Duplex) simply means that the RX and TX cables are used simultaneous. Due to the small ethernet frame size, it is next to impossible to get the full speed for data transmission.

Re: dc0 wierdness with Compex Freedomline

2000-02-24 Thread Garrett Wollman
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000 10:21:31 -0700, Chris Wasser [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The theoretical maximum for 100BaseT-FDX (which is 200Mbps) is 25MB/s (megabytes per second), 100BaseT-TX is 12MB/s [FYI: Mbps-MB/s you divide by 8] I realize my punctuation may be off, but there you are. Assuming you

Re: dc0 wierdness with Compex Freedomline

2000-02-24 Thread Chris Wasser
On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 07:48:35PM +0100, Dieter Rothacker wrote: No, it is not. It is 100Mbps upstream and 100Mbps downstream. You cannot get 200Mbps in one direction. FDX (Full Duplex) simply means that the RX and TX cables are used simultaneous. Due to the small ethernet frame size, it is

dc0 wierdness with Compex Freedomline

2000-02-24 Thread Pascal Hofstee
Hello, I am experiencing some weird problems with the dc-driver for a specific ethernet-card ... the Compex Freedomline (10/100 Mbps). The card perfectly seems to autodetect the mode it should operate on and seems to indeed be working just fine just after the system has booted up.

Re: dc0 wierdness with Compex Freedomline

2000-02-24 Thread Chris Wasser
On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 12:04:38PM +0100, Pascal Hofstee wrote: media: autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex) Downloading an 128 MB-file from the network to /dev/null results in speeds like 9.8 MB/s (close to the theoretical maximum for a 100 Mbps network) The theoretical maximum for

Re: dc0 wierdness with Compex Freedomline

2000-02-24 Thread Peter Schwenk
Don't forget protocol overhead. Chris Wasser wrote: On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 12:04:38PM +0100, Pascal Hofstee wrote: media: autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex) Downloading an 128 MB-file from the network to /dev/null results in speeds like 9.8 MB/s (close to the theoretical maximum

Re: dc0 wierdness with Compex Freedomline

2000-02-24 Thread Dieter Rothacker
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000 10:21:31 -0700, Chris Wasser wrote: Downloading an 128 MB-file from the network to /dev/null results in speeds like 9.8 MB/s (close to the theoretical maximum for a 100 Mbps network) The theoretical maximum for 100BaseT-FDX (which is 200Mbps) is 25MB/s (megabytes per