Re: full duplex ethernet ?
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 07:15:56PM -0500, W. Paul Mills wrote:
| dsh8290@rit.edu (D-Man) writes:
| >
| > Most cards (that I have/have seen) have LEDs near the RJ-45 jack.
| > They usually tell you. The switch I have also indicates whether the
| > connection is 10 or 100 and whether it is Full or half duplex. I
| > don't know why, but the 2 ISA NE2000 clones that are supposedly
| > full-duplex don't appear on the switch as full-duplex.
|
| As I understand it, the card and the switch look at each other and
| determine what features they share. Some clones, esp. the older ones
| do not always communicate their abilities correctly.
That could be, although these are brand new Netgear cards (EA201 or
something like that).
-D
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