From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 13 21:24:48 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 82C7B37B404 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 21:24:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from entwistle.sonicboom.org (node-423a3b1b-san-onnet.worldcom.com [66.58.59.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5360F43EB2 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 21:24:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bri@sonicboom.org) Received: from bwhalen (entwistle.sonicboom.org [66.58.59.27]) by entwistle.sonicboom.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with SMTP id gBE5Og1M001074; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 21:24:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bri@sonicboom.org) Message-ID: <009701c2a331$7a9ade50$3224200a@bwhalen> From: "Brian" To: "Kevin Stevens" , "FreeBSD Mailing List" References: <35651346-0F18-11D7-9645-003065715DA8@pursued-with.net> Subject: Re: Hubs and switches (was: uninformed qstn...) Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 21:15:45 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 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 yeah that was in pc magazine, they divided em up into lo medium and hi priced categories as well.. Bri ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Stevens" To: "FreeBSD Mailing List" Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 7:57 PM Subject: Re: Hubs and switches (was: uninformed qstn...) > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message