Ethernet LAN

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STP question

Hello folks, I have a (simple?) question about the spanning tree protocol (STP). Consider Bridge 1 is the root bridge a...
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posted by diego
4 comments posted 21yrs posted by diego

Picking an IP multicast address

I'm building a network of fairly stupid devices. Most if not all communication with them will be via MAC-addressable fr...
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posted by cnelson
1 comments posted 21yrs posted by cnelson

simple question

Hi all. What are differences of IP addresses and MAC addresses?? Thanks a lot in advance Lukasz
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posted by lkondrad
10 comments posted 21yrs posted by lkondrad

Latency

Opinions please!! I've deceided to use the delta times between TCP SYN Ethernet frames to determin network latency. I'v...
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posted by g9gu-7wqw
1 comments posted 21yrs posted by g9gu-7wqw

Getting Checksum Errors on Gigabit Ethernet Cards

About 18 months ago we upgraded all of our key servers to use fiber optic gigabit ethernet cards. We went with Compaq N...
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posted by DELETE_westes
1 comments posted 21yrs posted by DELETE_westes

Internal loop back

hi Friends, iam Niranjan working with AMD's am79c972 and tried to configure it's internal loop backmode! I am able to c...
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posted by podduturiniranjan
0 comments posted 21yrs posted by podduturiniranjan

Patch cables for 1000BaseT Cat{5,5E}?

Cat5E patch cables are almost 40% more than Cat5 at the particular vendor I'm looking at, does 1000BaseT require Cat5e o...
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posted by William P.N. Smith
4 comments posted 21yrs posted by William P.N. Smith

Limits on IGMP tuning parameters

RFC 2236 specifies some interrelationships between parameters (e.g., "[Group Membership Interval] MUST be ((the Robustn...
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posted by cnelson
1 comments posted 21yrs posted by cnelson

Ethereal Capture-Filter for web address filtering

Hello, I guess this question must have been asked before but I haven't found any answers. My boss has told me to find o...
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posted by eggbert
8 comments posted 21yrs posted by eggbert

ethernet frequency and power on ethernet

Hello, I am want know the frequency of the ethernet data so that i can decide on the value of the inductor through whic...
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posted by praveenkumar1979
14 comments posted 21yrs posted by praveenkumar1979

switch reccomendations

Excuse me if this beyond the normal scope of this group. But I'm after a 24 port 100baseT managed switch with some form...
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posted by usenet
7 comments posted 21yrs posted by usenet

D-Link DSL-500 Console Cable

Hi, Does anyone out there know the pin-outs for a D-Link RJ11 -> DB-9 console cable? Thanks for your help.
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posted by mark_3094
1 comments posted 21yrs posted by mark_3094

Intermittent loss of connectivity on DSL

I have a high-speed line with my phone company and over the last few weeks have been losing connectivity every so often...
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posted by steven_nospam
2 comments posted 21yrs posted by steven_nospam

gigabit and 1000baseT

There is a discussion related to Linux/390 claiming that 1000baseT is not gigabit ethernet. I believe the claim is that...
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posted by gah
5 comments posted 21yrs posted by gah

Network stutter

Hi, am quite new to networks, hoping someone may be able to help me. Am sharing an cable net connection in my house via...
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posted by Wiredchop
1 comments posted 21yrs posted by Wiredchop