ethernet and switches, was Re: [rescue] Mozilla Firefox

[Mike Meredith]

On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 17:12:07 -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> Thu, 22 Apr 2004 @ 14:02 -0400, Dave McGuire said:
> 
> [subject changed]
> 
> >   It's kinda like taking a poorly-performing Ethernet network and 
> > making it fully switched to alleviate congestion.  That's modifying
> > a very basic underlying part of the design of Ethernet (the whole
> > point of CSMA/CD) in order to make it perform well.
> 
> OK... but what is the proper solution there?

Replace with FDDI/CDDI.