[Info-vax] Additional ethernet (e.g. 100BASE-TX) NIC for Multia/UDB?

[Hans Bachner]

Answering myself...

Hans Bachner <Hans at Bachner.priv.at> wrote:

> Phillip Helbig---undress to reply <helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de> 
> wrote:
<snip> 
>> Can the DE450 do FD or just HD?
> 
> Aren't all twisted-pair links FD capable? 
> 
> Don't have specs for the DE450 at hand... but
> <http://www.aei-
> it.com/support/download/pfec_download/Windows/WinNT4sp4/OEMSETUP.INF>
> offers a "10BaseT Full_Duplex" connection setting.
<snip>

Just found the DE435 manuals on 
<http://deathrow.vistech.net/~cvisors/dec94mds/>
They explicitely mention full duplex capability for the DE434/DE435 so I 
think it's fair to assume that the DE450 will do full duplex as well.

Only 10Base2/10Base5 are restricted to half duplex by design.

Hans.