North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: FDDI or 100Mb Ethernet
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 >[email protected] [email protected] > > > Lewis Eatherton Network Architect SegaSoft, Inc 650.654.2318
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