From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Dec 18 20:10:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05C5915186 for ; Sat, 18 Dec 1999 20:10:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id UAA01049; Sat, 18 Dec 1999 20:10:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 20:10:10 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199912190410.UAA01049@apollo.backplane.com> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I picked up a nifty little D-Link DSS-5+ 5-port 10/100 switch today CompUSA had a 5-port network kit labeled 'DFE-910' which had the DSS-5+ and two DFE-530TX+ NIC Cards ('rl' driver), plus cables, for $130. It appears to operate quite nicely. I can run all 5 ports at 100BaseTX speeds in full-duplex mode and it seems to take whatever I throw at it, though I didn't life test it so I don't know what it can actually handle. It seems to have sufficient buffering to deal with fragmented NFS packets without losing anything so I'm happy. Prices have fallen a lot in the last year. I'm happy to be able to get rid of my HUBs, I was constantly having to deal with packet loss when running saturation tests and never able to figure out what was causing it. Note that buy.com lists a 'DFE-910' kit for around $100, but their description of it is that it contains a hub rather then a switch. I know what I got at CompUSA was a switch, not a hub, but I don't know what you'd get if you bought the DFE-910 part number from buy.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message