Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 13:20:39 -0500 (EST) From: Stefan Molnar <stefan@exis.net> To: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com> Cc: Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@surf.iaehv.nl>, isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 10Mb/100Mb switches Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.961209131827.23816E-100000@tarpon.exis.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961209075604.17554D-100000@harlie>
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> We recently priced out a 10Mb switched hub for a network of about 22 > computers, and the only hub even close to cost effective was the 3Com > SuperStack II 1000, with 24 10Mb ports and one 100Mb port, all switched. > There was only one other manufacturer that came close, because everyone > else had low density switches, so we were going to have to string together > 4-6 hubs to get enough ports. We overloaded ours with 9 PM2e It could not handel the RIP. How are you going to string them together? The high end synoptics/Bay network ones that we have use a 2GigaBit SCSI backplane. It is full dulplex 100MB so it runs very sweet. Stefan -------------------------------------------- Stefan Molnar Team Exis.Net stefan@exis.net Member EFF Slightly Silly Team OS/2 east-coast-ambassador@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU "She turned me into a Newt! A Newt? I got better." -Monty Python --------------------------------------------
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