mii-tool and dsl?

[Chris Kloiber]

On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 04:41, Mike Burger wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> 
> > Am Di, den 20.04.2004 schrieb Mike Burger um 07:54:
> > 
> > > Are you kidding?  I haven't seen a current model of cable or DSL 
> > > router/modems that doesn't do 100meg on their ethernet ports.
> > 
> > > Mike Burger
> > 
> > I can't speak for worldwide situation, but here in Europe the DSL
> > modems/router just have 10MBit ports.
> 
> *blink*  Wow...I must say that I'm surprised.  I just can't imagine that 
> the manufacturers would bother.

The Cable/DSL equipment I am familiar with have 100BaseTx-FD switches
for the local network, and 10BaseTx-FD on the "Wan" port. No need for
100BaseTx-FD there, Cable/DSL just isn't that fast (yet).

-- 
Chris Kloiber