Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 07:34:34 -0600 From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <mountin.man@mixcom.com> To: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fw: FreeBSD firewall questions Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19980212073434.00732070@198.137.186.100> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.980212182006.294Q-100000@panda.hilink.com.au > References: <199802120709.XAA03963@biggusdiskus.flyingfox.com>
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At 06:21 PM 2/12/98 +1100, Daniel O'Callaghan wrote: >And if the two computers are right next to each other, why not use coax? >It seems to have gone out of fashion, somewhat, but it still works. Just one piece of coax in a collision domain drops the potential throughput, so unless the network is lightly loaded. Once I lost the last coax NIC things were _much_ better. I'd avoid coax like a traffic jam. It's out of fashion for a reason. Jeff Mountin - Unix Systems TCP/IP networking mountin.man@mixcom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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