Slow transfer with 21140 card

Hannu Krosing hannu@trust.ee
Wed Jul 22 14:58:17 1998


Robert G. Brown wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Hannu Krosing wrote:
> 
> > >  The Rx process state is 'Waiting for packets'.
> > >  The Tx process state is 'Idle'.
> > > Transmit started, Receive started, full-duplex.
> >
> > Are you sure that the hubs are full-duplex ?
> 
> I think that "hubs" are never full duplex (correct me if I'm wrong).
> I thought only switches are full duplex and hubs are intrinsically
> half duplex.

You are probably right. But are the switches _always_ full-duplex ?

Hannu