Atom Powers wrote: > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 9:29 AM, seph <s...@directionless.org> wrote: > >> Tom Limoncelli <t...@whatexit.org> writes: >> >> >>> 1. 10M ethernet is half-duplex. >>> >> Er, really? That's not my recollection. (And the first couple google >> hits tell me full duplex was supported on 10BaseT) >> > > But on CAT3? > > The underlying cabling doesn't matter as long as you have 2 pairs (which is required for basic connectivity anyway. Full duplex got added to a bunch of 10mbit chipsets about the time that 100mbit came out and made it more standardly available. So, yeah, it's not unreasonable to see it, though it is *usually* supported only on backwards compatible 100mbit chipsets as 10/full and not on a 10 only chipset.
It really depends on how "badly" cat-3 it is.. there's cat-3 and there's cat-3.. Cat3 that's rather like cat-5 ought to work, but then there are the installations where the sheating is stripped off a foot from the end and the untwists are like 3 inches into a 66 block. That _might_ be troublesome. ;) Distance matters a lot too, of course. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
