Re: [nsp] Re[2]: [nsp] FE port in I/O Controller of 7206VXR

From: Petri Helenius (pete@eunet.fi)
Date: Wed Nov 17 1999 - 02:35:02 EST


Charles Sprickman wrote:
>
> On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Petri Helenius wrote:
>
> > It took them a few years to get the AMD Presidio2 chip on 26XX's and 36XX's
> > to run at 10 megabit full duplex. (and if you believe what they are saying,
> > about five million dollars) So I'm not surprised here.
>
> This is the same chip as in the PA-4E, isn't it? I'm guessing that my
> more expensive 7206's can't run these ports full-duplex because they just
> haven't gotten around to writing supporting software? I thought the
> higher end stuff was supposed to get performance enhancements first...
>
Same chip, another five million.

You might want to load 12.0(5)T or later and try if the command is
there. They didn't
afford go get it to show the duplex on "show int" which is kind of dull.

Pete



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