A network comprising:
Two machines withAL440LX Motherboards running Pentium II
at 233 MHz, each with a 10MHz NIC.
One machine is an Olivetti Laptop (model 510) with a 333MHz Celeron.
It has a PCMCIA 10/100MHz NIC.
The hub/router is an "MRi" ADSL modem.
Is a pretty naff system, is it not Geoff, even ignoring the 5 machines
which are not
running Microsoft products at all (and not all LINUX/UNIX)
Especially, as according to the network owner, " the inter-working problem
likely to be caused by buffer overflows because
of the 100MHz card swamping the 10 MHz cards" (I assume this is down to the
use of too much "Big K". If you can avoid the use of "Big K" you can mix
10 and 100MHz NICs readily.)
Note: chez nous, even the M3s have at least 450MHz uPs and the 2E a
1700MHz.
Never mind, the network owner has "boned up" on this topic now (he claims to
be softy of 30 years experience
primarily in embedded/real-Time (note: not safety critical systems) , with
some PC experience, but didn't have time to bone up on this area, which
wasn't his field). So much so he is offering technical advice on
microsoft.public.win98.networking . Can it belong before he assumes the
title of "Most Valuable Professional ", or one of the MS certification
certificates, as he assumes other things.
73
Brian
- posted 18 years ago