Lousy Network Performance

[David Bandel]

On 6/29/05, Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 June 2005 02:54, GH Snijders wrote:
> > Kurt Wall <kwall <at> kurtwerks.com> writes:
> > > On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 08:41:18AM -0500, Net Llama! took 0 lines to
> write:
> > > > What do you get from miitool eth0 and eth1?
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > $ mii-tool eth0 eth1
> > > eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-FD, link ok
> > >
> > > eth1: negotiated 100baseTx-FD, link ok
> >
> > Maybe try Half duplex instead of Full duplex?
> 
> You're the second person to suggest that. I don't really understand
> the difference between half and full duplex, but I have always just
> assumed full duplex was better because, well, "half" isn't as good
> as "full." " :-\


Imagine a telephone and a radio:
On a telephone, you can both talk at the same time.
On a radio, one side talks, then says: over, and the other side talks.

telephone:  full-duplex.
radio:  half duplex.

duplex:  du two +  plicar to fold.  Info may be transmitted in both
directions over one channel.  half means one way at a time, full means
both ways simultaneously.
(From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
[gcide] with some modifications by me)

for more info:  `dict duplex`

???

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
-- 
Focus on the dream, not the competition.
            - Nemesis Air Racing Team motto