You can also buy a $199 10/100 switch to connect the router to. I hear
that the 10 Mbit market is basically okay no matter who you pick on a 1
or two port basis.
Deepak Jain
AiNET
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Joe McGuckin wrote:
>
>
> Why doesn't Cisco modify the driver to support 10Bt mode on the
> Ethernet chip (DEC TULIP). This is the same chip that is in
> $25 10/100 Ethernet cards that one can purchase at Frys. Yet this
> card sells for $2500 (list price) from Cisco.
>
> Microsoft seems to have no problem making their drivers for the TULIP
> run at 10 or 100Mbit...
>
> William Chu <wwwchu@itsd.gcn.gov.hk> wrote:
> > The FE port on the 7200VXR I/O Controller is a pure FastEthernet, therefore
> > it only runs at 100 Mbps. However, you can switch between half or full
> > duplex.
> >
> > Please see if you can move a workstation from 100 Mbps to 10 Mbps and free
> > up a 100 Mbps port for your 7200VXR since most workstation's NICs support
> > 10 and 100 Mbps.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > William Chu
> > Technical Manager, CCIE #1247
> > Network Infrastructure
> > Information Technology Services Department
> > E-mail: wwwchu@itsd.gcn.gov.hk
> >
> > At 10:43 PM 1999/11/16 +0300, Basil V. Dolmatov wrote:
> > >On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Dimitri Sidelnikov wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hi!
> > >>
> > >> Is it possible to make FastEthernet port in I/O Controller of 7206VXR
> > work at
> > >> 10Mb speed?
> > >Seems that answer is NO. Port on I/O controller is _pure_ FastEthernet.
> > >
> > >If someone correct me, I would be very glad.
> > >
> > >>
> > >> I urgently need to connect 7206VXR to the LAN, but unfortunately I have
> > not a
> > >> single 100Mb port available at the switch just now. :-( I searched CCO,
> > but
> > >> didn't find any clue...
> > >>
> > >
> > >--------------------------------------
> > >Basil (Vasily) Dolmatov CCNP-Security, CCDA
> > >East Connection ISP, Moscow, Russia. (http://www.east.ru)
> > >
> > >
> > >
>
>
>
> --
>
> Joe McGuckin
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