From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 13 19:57:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D4CF37B401 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 19:57:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from pursued-with.net (adsl-66-125-9-242.dsl.sndg02.pacbell.net [66.125.9.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9006943ED8 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 19:57:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net) Received: from pursued-with.net (fffinch [192.168.168.101]) by pursued-with.net (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gBE3vkCX007005 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 19:57:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net) Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 19:57:48 -0800 Subject: Re: Hubs and switches (was: uninformed qstn...) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v548) From: Kevin Stevens To: FreeBSD Mailing List Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <20021214034131.GH503@wantadilla.lemis.com> Message-Id: <35651346-0F18-11D7-9645-003065715DA8@pursued-with.net> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.548) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, Dec 13, 2002, at 19:41 US/Pacific, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > I have three switches in my network: a Cisco 2900 (24 ports), a > Netgear FS105 (5 ports) and a D-Link DSS-8+ (8 ports), in rapidly > decreasing order of cost. I've never had any trouble with any of > them. It's possible that the cheap switches might have trouble with > sustained throughput: an 8 port 100 Mb/s switch can theoretically be > confronted with a load of 800 Mb/s. 1,600 Mb/s. > I believe the D-Link can do this > speed, though I can't find the docco. No 100 Mb/s hub will have a > bandwidth of more than 100 Mb/s, however, and even that is limited by > collisions. I saw a test a few months ago of several low-end switches, and they were all non-blocking with similar performance. Pretty much a commodity item at this point. KeS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message