Dave Uhring wrote:

> On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 08:49:24 -0700, George Pontis wrote:
>
>> Is there no upside at all to full duplex ?
>
> Yes, there certainly is. Packet collisions never occur.

Packet collisions are not necessarily evil. Not at all. They are there
by design. And an adsl connection won't get faster if you would use
full duplex... :-)

> However the
> devices at *both* ends of the cable must be configured at full duplex.
>
> A duplex mismatch will cause the exact problem noted by the OP.

Exactly.

EJ
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