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Re: FDDI or 100Mb Ethernet

  • From: Deepak Jain
  • Date: Fri Feb 06 14:50:31 1998

FDDI can run full duplex, as for the other two things its a matter of 
opinion & conditions.  (One I agree with, but still opinion).

-Deepak.

On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, Lewis Eatherton wrote:

> 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
>