From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 13 19:59:49 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 6A1C237B401 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 19:59:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from nycsmtp1out.rdc-nyc.rr.com (nycsmtp1out.rdc-nyc.rr.com [24.29.99.222]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 664A543EC5 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 19:59:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scottro@nyc.rr.com) Received: from nyc.rr.com (66-108-172-188.nyc.rr.com [66.108.172.188]) by nycsmtp1out.rdc-nyc.rr.com (8.12.1/Road Runner SMTP Server 1.0) with SMTP id gBE3xjwr029374 for >; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 22:59:45 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 23:05:57 -0500 From: Scott Robbins To: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: Hubs and switches (was: uninformed qstn...) Message-ID: <20021214040557.GA1797@scottro11.homeunix.net> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD Mailing List References: <20021213060718.GA8054@tao.thought.org> <20021214034131.GH503@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20021213214850.D9342@seekingfire.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021213214850.D9342@seekingfire.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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 --h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 09:48:50PM -0600, Tillman wrote: > On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 02:11:31PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > I've seen little difference. But DON"T BUY A HUB! Buy a switch > > instead. They'll give you better performance, and they hardly cost > > any more. >=20 > Great advice. It looks like Cisco has even stopped listing hubs for sale > - layer two switching seems to firmly in control these days :-) The price difference has really become almost non-existent--one thing that we've found to happen with some cheap switches (a year or so old, hasn't happened with newer cheap switches) is that if one moves a computer from one location to another, the switch seems to take its time flushing its tables and the box won't immediately be able to get an address. It's only happened once or twice with a VERY cheap Linksys (again, the switch is probably 1-2 years old, and this problem might be fixed by now). I should also add that we never fully determined that was the problem--it was usually a matter of trying this and that and eventually the box would get an address and only afterwards did we think of the switch as the culprit. --=20 Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Gunn: Fair Cordelia. You still savin' my life? Cordelia: Every minute. Gunn: How's that workin' out? Cordelia: You're alive aren't you? --h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9+q4l+lTVdes0Z9YRAm/qAJ9SYRA2ogicQhF3I4+ZN/9ipxLMrACffuXD XOPgrjiz/J4y2KxwMKLdfXQ= =YL01 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message