Re: [techtalk] Re: [issues] Issues FAQ

2000-11-12 Thread Jamie Walker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yes, it's the max transfer (or transmission) unit: it determines the > largest packet that the router will spit down the modem. Precisely how > it's set depends on the way you're routing packets - for Dancer and I, > that's a debian linux box which acts as our gateway/f

Re: [techtalk] Re: [issues] Issues FAQ

2000-11-12 Thread jenn
Bek Oberin wrote: > > Jenn Vesperman wrote: > >Keep the MTU reasonably down, so that if your > >partner's doing a large download your chat packets go out promptly > >anyway. Learn what MTU means, and how to set it. > > Okay, time to learn. What's a MTU (max trasfer unit - wild > gue

Re: [techtalk] Re: [issues] Issues FAQ

2000-11-12 Thread ktb
Bek Oberin wrote: > > Jenn Vesperman wrote: > >Have your own computers. Have your own computer desks. Build a LAN, > >know how to maintain it, and let the router split the packets. Have a > >router - use the 486 you bought from your cousin's friend who's had it > >on a shelf for y

[techtalk] Re: [issues] Issues FAQ

2000-11-12 Thread Bek Oberin
Jenn Vesperman wrote: >Have your own computers. Have your own computer desks. Build a LAN, >know how to maintain it, and let the router split the packets. Have a >router - use the 486 you bought from your cousin's friend who's had it >on a shelf for years. Keep the MTU reasonably d

Re: [techtalk] Keyboard/Mouse Reset Hardware Problem

2000-11-12 Thread Walt
At 12:26 PM 11/12/00 +, you wrote: >Any i386 hardware gurus out there? I've beome rather enamored of the VNC thin-client software as opposed to the whole concept of hardware switches, etc. It has windows, mac, and linux servers as well as clients and from my work on all three platforms, the l

Re: [techtalk] Keyboard/Mouse Reset Hardware Problem

2000-11-12 Thread ktb
Conor Daly wrote: > > Any i386 hardware gurus out there? > > I've got a 4-port (Hardware only) Data switch for monitor, keyboard and > mouse that I'm using to share monitor etc between three Intel / AMD > machines running a mixture of M$ Windows, BeOS and RH6.2. Both keyboard > and mouse are PS

[techtalk] Keyboard/Mouse Reset Hardware Problem

2000-11-12 Thread Conor Daly
Any i386 hardware gurus out there? I've got a 4-port (Hardware only) Data switch for monitor, keyboard and mouse that I'm using to share monitor etc between three Intel / AMD machines running a mixture of M$ Windows, BeOS and RH6.2. Both keyboard and mouse are PS/2 but the keyboard connection