FDDI cables

From: gwynp_at_artware.qc.ca <(gwynp_at_artware.qc.ca)>
Date: Thu Jul 26 02:33:32 2001

On 25-Jul-2001 Dave McGuire wrote:
> Wacky? Umm, no. Spewing a packet onto a shared medium and then
> detecting the presence of noise on the line to indicate a collision,
> then retransmitting at a random interval until the packet gets through
> is wacky. Deploying 100baseT everywhere and then putting everything
> on a MAC-layer-bridged port (thus defeating one of the primary design
> principles of the networking technology in use) to get anywhere near a
> usable level of performance is wacky.

But less expensive.

-Philip
Received on Thu Jul 26 2001 - 02:33:32 BST