[6466] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Exchanges that matter...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Stuart)
Mon Dec 9 00:06:03 1996
To: Nathan Stratton <nathan@netrail.net>
Cc: Stephen Stuart <stuart@pa.dec.com>, Joe Rhett <joe@navigist.com>,
Sean Doran <smd@cesium.clock.org>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of Sun, 08 Dec 96 16:16:42 -0500.
<Pine.LNX.3.95.961208161310.14832B-100000@netrail.net>
Date: Sun, 08 Dec 96 20:50:36 -0800
From: Stephen Stuart <stuart@pa.dec.com>
> > I'm somewhat confused as to why you would say you offer full duplex
> > FDDI in a manner that implies no-one else does. If someone walked up
> > to your GIGAswitch/FDDI (or anyone's) with a full duplex line card,
> > they'd get full duplex unless you took some specific action to prevent
> > it (by, say, putting three stations on a ring), or if you disable it
> > in management (it comes enabled by default).
>
> Well, because when I talked to MFS they said they would don't turn on full
> duplex modem, I got the same thing from PAIX.
Full-duplex mode is enabled on all ports on the PAIX GIGAswitch/FDDI;
we never disabled it.
> No, I turn it on, so far all the NAPs I have turned it off. If MFS and
> PAIX wants to turn it on then great.
Like I said above, PAIX never turned it off.
If you'd like to follow up privately to work out the source of your
error, you know where to find me.
Stephen
