Flow control and Back pressure setting on Cisco SLM248G Switch

[ipodtrip01]

On my Cisco SLM248G Switch the Back pressure and Flow control are currently disable.

For the Flow control is it best to set it to enable or just Auto negotations and for the Back pressure is it ok the Enable it.

This Cisco Switch has 3 servers and 15 laptop users connected to the ports.

Will there be a draw back to enable these settings.

Thanks.

[David Carr]

Ipodtrip,

Flow control is typically very useful if you have speed mismatches on the network, like a server that is on a gig interface and pc that is on 10/100 you may be dropping packets or fragments.  Flow control would negotiate between the two sessions and throttle down the data transfer.

Its good to use on a network if your speeds are mismatched though.