From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Feb 12 05:38:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA28225 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 05:38:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mixcom.mixcom.com (mixcom.mixcom.com [198.137.186.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id FAA28218 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 05:38:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mountin.man@mixcom.com) Received: by mixcom.mixcom.com (8.6.12/2.2) id HAA21185; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 07:40:26 -0600 Received: from dial193-15.mixcom.com(207.250.193.15) by mixcom.mixcom.com via smap (V1.3) id sma021178; Thu Feb 12 07:40:17 1998 Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19980212073434.00732070@198.137.186.100> X-Sender: mmttnn@198.137.186.100 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 07:34:34 -0600 To: "Daniel O'Callaghan" From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Subject: Re: Fw: FreeBSD firewall questions Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <199802120709.XAA03963@biggusdiskus.flyingfox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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