From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 13 20: 4: 4 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 27C5E37B401 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 20:04:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01.attbi.com [204.127.202.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C4E543EC2 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 20:04:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mav@wastegate.net) Received: from wastegate.net (12-226-185-104.client.attbi.com[12.226.185.104]) by sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01) with ESMTP id <20021214040401001003sjhhe>; Sat, 14 Dec 2002 04:04:01 +0000 Received: from MOTHER (mother.wg.local [192.168.1.5]) by wastegate.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11C1848463; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 23:15:02 -0500 (EST) From: "Doug Reynolds" To: "FreeBSD Mailing List" , "Scott Robbins" Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 23:04:31 -0500 X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.20.2657) For Windows 2000 (5.1.2600) In-Reply-To: <20021214040557.GA1797@scottro11.homeunix.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Hubs and switches (was: uninformed qstn...) Message-Id: <20021214041502.11C1848463@wastegate.net> 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 Fri, 13 Dec 2002 23:05:57 -0500, Scott Robbins wrote: >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. I just picked up two Dell PowerConnect 2016 (16 port 10/100 autosensing) for $99 a piece on sale from dell. they are rack-mountable and seem to work well, and has uplink autosensing. --- doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message