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.
73Brian