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Re: FDDI or 100Mb Ethernet
From: Lewis Eatherton <eathertl () segasoft com>
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 17:11:05 -0800
FDDI would be my last choice. 100MB ethernet can be run full duplex, is less expensive, and far easier to troubleshoot. At 07:42 PM 2/5/98 -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote:
Hi, We colocate with our upstream, so we (thankfully) don't have to deal with Bell Atlantic for our main Internet connection. We are currently running a 10Mb ethernet link to our provider, but our contract allows for more than that should we ever need it. Since the Bay ASN we now use will soon be history and will be replaced by a shiny new(?) Cisco, I'm thinking of upgrading the link now rather than later. We have a choice of FDDI or 100Mb ethernet. I'm thinking FDDI is better, and not too much more expensive for our side. Are there any negatives with FDDI? How does the 4000(?) Byte MTU affect things? All of our outgoing links, T1 and ether are all 1500. Does the work of fragmenting the packets down to 1500 amount to anything? All this talk about MTUs has got me wondering. Thanks, Charles ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~ Charles Sprickman Internet Channel INCH System Administration Team (212)243-5200 spork () inch com access () inch com
Lewis Eatherton Network Architect SegaSoft, Inc 650.654.2318
Current thread:
- FDDI or 100Mb Ethernet Charles Sprickman (Feb 05)
- Re: FDDI or 100Mb Ethernet Kent W. England (Feb 05)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: FDDI or 100Mb Ethernet Charles Sprickman (Feb 06)
- Re: FDDI or 100Mb Ethernet Lewis Eatherton (Feb 06)
- Re: FDDI or 100Mb Ethernet Deepak Jain (Feb 06)
- Re: FDDI or 100Mb Ethernet Dean Anderson (Feb 06)
- Re: FDDI or 100Mb Ethernet Paul Ferguson (Feb 06)
- Re: FDDI or 100Mb Ethernet Sean M. Doran (Feb 08)
- Re: FDDI or 100Mb Ethernet Matthew Petach (Feb 08)
- Re: FDDI or 100Mb Ethernet Deepak Jain (Feb 06)
- Re: FDDI or 100Mb Ethernet David Lesher (Feb 06)
- Re: FDDI or 100Mb Ethernet Dorn Hetzel (Feb 06)
- Re: FDDI or 100Mb Ethernet Martin Hannigan (Feb 06)
- Re: FDDI or 100Mb Ethernet Karl Denninger (Feb 06)
- Re: FDDI or 100Mb Ethernet Robert E. Seastrom (Feb 06)