Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 10:38:30 -0800 (PST) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com> To: Stefan Molnar <stefan@exis.net> Cc: Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@surf.iaehv.nl>, isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 10Mb/100Mb switches Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961209103608.23966A-100000@harlie> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.961209131827.23816E-100000@tarpon.exis.net>
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On Mon, 9 Dec 1996, Stefan Molnar wrote: > > > We recently priced out a 10Mb switched hub for a network of about 22 > > computers, and the only hub even close to cost effective was the 3Com > > SuperStack II 1000, with 24 10Mb ports and one 100Mb port, all switched. > > There was only one other manufacturer that came close, because everyone > > else had low density switches, so we were going to have to string together > > 4-6 hubs to get enough ports. Sorry, meant that we'd have to string them together if we had gone with a different switched hub. > We overloaded ours with 9 PM2e It could not handel the RIP. How are > you going to string them together? The high end synoptics/Bay network > ones that we have use a 2GigaBit SCSI backplane. It is full dulplex > 100MB so it runs very sweet. It has 24 ports, so we don't need to string them together. We will be adding a 100Mb unswitched hub for new units (would have just upgraded the machines to 100Mb, but not practical due to ancient OS), but this is the only switched port we need.home | help
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