[ntp:questions] OT: GPS18x LVC failure

Rick Jones rick.jones2 at hp.com
Tue Oct 13 21:17:38 UTC 2009


Uwe Klein <uwe_klein_habertwedt at t-online.de> wrote:
> With switches the problem tends to be the strategy for handling
> (potentially) colliding traffic.
> "Passthrough", "store-and-forward", "drop/cause resend" have
> massively different transit times.
> Depending on traffic density any single switch will use a mix of all
> transfertypes.

I don't think it is what you meant by "drop/cause resend" but
something else "new" in 1 Gigabit Ethernet relative to old 10/100 is
support for pause and resume (moral equivalent to xon/xoff?) flow
control.

rick jones
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