At 09:08 AM 17/08/2005, Glen Turner wrote:
DaZZa wrote:
The Cisco device would block the bad port if it detects a problem.
The switch ports in the c8?? are too dumb to do that.
Aye.
It's probably a jabbering network interface card (eg, sending
the last packet repeatedly, with corruption). These are usually
isolated by the switch, but we're talking household kit here
(which tends to do cut-through switching which will pass jabbering
frames whereas enterprise switches usual take the slower but
safer path of receiving and checking the entire packet before
re-transmitting it).
I've found it to be the opposite .. commodity gear uses
store-and-forward rather than other schemes.
Rob
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