[19600] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: How to loadshare over many E1 links
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin, Christian)
Fri Sep 18 12:38:16 1998
From: "Martin, Christian" <CMartin@mercury.balink.com>
To: "'Jared Mauch'" <jared@puck.nether.net>,
"'Scott Whyte'"
<swhyte@cisco.com>,
"'Jesper Skriver'" <jesper@skriver.dk>,
"'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
Cc: "'tdk-backbone@t.dk'" <tdk-backbone@t.dk>
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 12:31:03 -0400
Jared,
I meant the latter. I knew that there were switch to switch FDX
capabilities - I'd never seen a router interface or NIC though. Cool.
Know any vendors off the top of your head???
-Chris
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jared Mauch [mailto:jared@puck.nether.net]
> Sent: Friday, September 18, 1998 12:34 PM
> To: Martin, Christian; 'Scott Whyte'; 'Jesper Skriver';
> 'nanog@merit.edu'
> Cc: 'tdk-backbone@t.dk'
> Subject: Re: How to loadshare over many E1 links
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 12:17:47PM -0400, Martin, Christian wrote:
> > I didn't know there was any full-duplex 10BaseT spec...
>
> Yes there is. You need to have cards that support it,
> not everything does.
>
> Most modern switches support 10M fdx links, but not all
> router interfaces support them. Some pc cards support it, but
> not all.
>
> It does exist, but is not wideley used at all. Most people
> with that much traffic opt to use FE or Fddi
>
> - jared
>
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