Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 23:04:31 -0500 From: "Doug Reynolds" <mav@wastegate.net> To: "FreeBSD Mailing List" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Scott Robbins" <scottro@nyc.rr.com> Subject: Re: Hubs and switches (was: uninformed qstn...) Message-ID: <20021214041502.11C1848463@wastegate.net> In-Reply-To: <20021214040557.GA1797@scottro11.homeunix.net>
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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
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