Re: poor ethernet performance?

1999-07-19 Thread Modred
On Sat, 17 Jul 1999, Vincent Poy wrote: > > > By reading the man page? > > The manpage doesn't really say anything about how to use ttcp... I don't think manpage useage is -hackers-esque. > There is no ttcp binary anywhere on either my -CURRENT, > 3.2-RELEASE and 3.1-RELEASE systems.

Re: poor ethernet performance?

1999-07-19 Thread Modred
On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Vincent Poy wrote: > I'm not sure if it shows the mac address of the cisco's port or > the actual device connected to it... You see the MAC of the switch's port. It's been too long since I've played on a Catalyst... but what does 'sh arp' display? Any arp -> port ->

Re: poor ethernet performance?

1999-07-20 Thread Modred
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Vincent Poy wrote: > No idea but it seems like the people who sold the Cisco switches > atleast claimed that each port is supposed to be secure to prevent packet > sniffing by people on the other ports... Perhaps they were touting 'VLANs'? I can see seperate/many, logi

Re: poor ethernet performance?

1999-07-21 Thread Modred
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Vincent Poy wrote: > Speaking about Layer 2 and layer 3. Does the Cisco Catalyst > 2924XL and the HP ProCurve 2424M and 4000M switches fall under Layer 3 or > just layer 2? Cisco, yes... HP, no clue (perhaps you could check their website). 2900XL Architecture Notes:

Re: poor ethernet performance?

1999-07-19 Thread Modred
On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Vincent Poy wrote: > I'm not sure if it shows the mac address of the cisco's port or > the actual device connected to it... You see the MAC of the switch's port. It's been too long since I've played on a Catalyst... but what does 'sh arp' display? Any arp -> port ->

Re: poor ethernet performance?

1999-07-19 Thread Modred
On Sat, 17 Jul 1999, Vincent Poy wrote: > > > By reading the man page? > > The manpage doesn't really say anything about how to use ttcp... I don't think manpage useage is -hackers-esque. > There is no ttcp binary anywhere on either my -CURRENT, > 3.2-RELEASE and 3.1-RELEASE systems

Re: poor ethernet performance?

1999-07-20 Thread Modred
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Vincent Poy wrote: > No idea but it seems like the people who sold the Cisco switches > atleast claimed that each port is supposed to be secure to prevent packet > sniffing by people on the other ports... Perhaps they were touting 'VLANs'? I can see seperate/many, log

Re: poor ethernet performance?

1999-07-21 Thread Modred
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Vincent Poy wrote: > Speaking about Layer 2 and layer 3. Does the Cisco Catalyst > 2924XL and the HP ProCurve 2424M and 4000M switches fall under Layer 3 or > just layer 2? Cisco, yes... HP, no clue (perhaps you could check their website). 2900XL Architecture Notes: