On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 03:36:20PM -0800, Mike Bresnahan wrote: > Do I understand correctly that the dual speed hub is converting between > manchester and MLT3 encoding along with buffering the packets? This brings > up another question. How big is the buffer and what happens when it fills > up? When it fills up it just drops the incoming packets. The layers above Ethernet will have to cope with that. That's why UDP is a "best-effort" transport. > I'm guessing there is some sort of flow control built in to keep things > sane. Hopefully they didn't use ctrl-s and ctrl-q! Ha ha! If the network is overloaded, it doesn't make much sense to add your own packets with "stop the transmission"... florin -- "If it's not broken, let's fix it till it is." 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 230 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20011119/92db5d5c/attachment.pgp