Ah, OK. The links act as a throttle - which is not the same thing as saying that the clients work "OK" with those slower links. Even if the clients work "OK", they will demand more given the opportunity. The former is a perspective of the user and the latter is the perspective of the applications.
Fred
Fred Marshall wrote: (snip)
The important point being that with 10Mb half duplex links, the sending hosts either can't send faster than the uplink can take the data, or get collisions as flow control.
The data from 10 links of 10Mb/s each should fit into a 100Mb/s uplink, so even full duplex it should be fine.
-- glen
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