Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 10:59:57 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> To: <fcash@bigfoot.com> Cc: <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Feeding the Troll (Was: freebsd as a desktop ?) Message-ID: <03e101c17985$c4b82be0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <3C06C1AF.16219.B78634@localhost>
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Freddie writes: > The outside DSL line is not the only communications > medium in use here. You said "routers for DSL/cable." I don't know of any DSL or cable connections that exceed 10 Mbps. > Limiting your internal LAN to a 10 mbit *hub* is > pointless nowadays unless you are only worried about > the occasional file transfer between computers. Probably. But these routers maintain hub transfers at 100 Mbps, even when you plug other machines directly into the on-board hub of the router. And even if you find a router that does not do this, you can just plug it into a cheap switch that does. In any case, I haven't been very successful at pushing my LAN to 100 Mbps (12.5 MB/s), even with direct connections between machines. The best I've been able to do is perhaps 20 Mbps, so something else is in the way. > Also, having your main network gateway and all > internal communication pass through the same > point is not good security policy. Why not? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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