From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Dec 9 11:53:46 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id LAA26867 for isp-outgoing; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 11:53:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (root@agora.rdrop.com [199.2.210.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id LAA26854 for ; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 11:53:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from horst.bfd.com by agora.rdrop.com with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #17) id m0vXBlh-0008v2C; Mon, 9 Dec 96 11:53 PST Received: from harlie (bastion.bfd.com [204.160.242.2]) by horst.bfd.com (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA02774; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 10:38:30 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 10:38:30 -0800 (PST) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" X-Sender: ejs@harlie To: Stefan Molnar cc: Willem Jan Withagen , isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 10Mb/100Mb switches In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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.