[15066] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FDDI or 100Mb Ethernet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lewis Eatherton)
Fri Feb 6 12:46:53 1998
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 17:11:05 -0800
To: Charles Sprickman <spork@inch.com>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Lewis Eatherton <eathertl@segasoft.com>
FDDI would be my last choice. 100MB ethernet can be run full duplex, is
less expensive, and far easier to troubleshoot.
At 07:42 PM 2/5/98 -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote:
>Hi,
>
>We colocate with our upstream, so we (thankfully) don't have to deal with
>Bell Atlantic for our main Internet connection. We are currently running
>a 10Mb ethernet link to our provider, but our contract allows for more
>than that should we ever need it. Since the Bay ASN we now use will soon
>be history and will be replaced by a shiny new(?) Cisco, I'm thinking of
>upgrading the link now rather than later.
>
>We have a choice of FDDI or 100Mb ethernet. I'm thinking FDDI is better,
>and not too much more expensive for our side. Are there any negatives
>with FDDI? How does the 4000(?) Byte MTU affect things? All of our
>outgoing links, T1 and ether are all 1500. Does the work of fragmenting
>the packets down to 1500 amount to anything? All this talk about MTUs has
>got me wondering.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Charles
>
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>
Lewis Eatherton
Network Architect
SegaSoft, Inc
650.654.2318
