Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 16:44:31 -0800 (PST) From: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel PRO/100+ driver or hardware? Message-ID: <200101090044.f090iVi92824@pau-amma.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <200101090024.f090O5K31687@earth.backplane.com>
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>Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 16:24:05 -0800 (PST)
>From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
> I've had incredibly good luck with the netgear FS516 (16 port unmanaged
> switch), more then I probably deserve. I haven't had a single problem
> using them to distribute our office LAN. However, I get mixed results
> with the smaller netgear switches (e.g. 5 and 8-port babies), and would
> not recommend them.
For whatever it might be worth, we swapped out just about all of the 4-,
5-, & 8-port mini-hubs from engineers' desks and replaced them with the
5- & 8-port NetGear 10/100 switches (FS105 & FS108).
I then replaced the odd assortment of hubs & switches with 24-port
NetGear switches.
The sole problem was in communicating with an old Black Box device that
converts between 10base-T & fiber. I circumvented that by interposing
one of the dumb 5-port mini-hubs between the Black Box device & the
switch. :-{
I liked the results enough to deploy an FS108 at home.... :-)
Of course, YMMV.
Cheers,
david
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