From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Dec 9 10:02:34 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id KAA18568 for isp-outgoing; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 10:02:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from tarpon.exis.net (stefan@tarpon.exis.net [205.252.72.108]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id KAA18563 for ; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 10:02:30 -0800 (PST) Received: (from stefan@localhost) by tarpon.exis.net (8.7.4/8.7.3) id NAA24747; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 13:20:40 -0500 Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 13:20:39 -0500 (EST) From: Stefan Molnar To: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" cc: Willem Jan Withagen , isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 10Mb/100Mb switches In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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 --------------------------------------------