On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 04:37:11PM +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote:
> Ive found that 100mbps --> 10mbps transfers go badly.
> This is due (from what ive gathered from various lists)
> that my switch is just dropping packets and not telling, so the sender
> waits for a time out then sends again.
> I fixed this by locking down the 100mbps to 10hd. Which is bad
> considering the cash i paid for the intel inbuisness switch.
> I think smart switches might be better at 100 --> 10 mbps conversion
if you were really bored and still didn't want to buy another 100M
card, you could try messing around with the 2.2/2.4 routing stuff and
throttling traffic destined for the 10M host down to 10Mbps - leaving
the rest still running at 100Mbps..
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- Gus
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