[Info-vax] strange LAT problem

[Dave Froble]

On 12/2/2018 7:12 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2018-12-02, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
>> In article <pu0igt$54o$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist
>> <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
>>
>>> On 2018-11-28 21:52, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>>>> In article <ptls10$hsa$2 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist
>>>> <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> Any WiFi in this picture?
>>>>
>>>> No.  There is WiFi on the same LAN, but nothing to do with VMS.
>>>
>>> Meaning you use LAT between VMS hosts, and all the VMS hosts are sitting
>>> on the same ethernet segment with nothing else in between?
>>
>> Right; just a switch.
>>
>
> What _kind_ of a switch ?
>
> Is it really a dumb switch (and _only_ a dumb switch) or does it
> have "intelligence" built into it ?
>
> Simon.
>

Long time ago, I had a network problem.  Some DEC network devices didn't 
do a good job negotiating duplex, full, half, and such.  If they don't 
match, data can be lost.  Or slow.

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