From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Feb 15 12:23:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA16872 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Sun, 15 Feb 1998 12:23:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from whistle.com (s205m131.whistle.com [207.76.205.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA16864 for ; Sun, 15 Feb 1998 12:23:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from archie@whistle.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by whistle.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id MAA23780; Sun, 15 Feb 1998 12:22:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from bubba.whistle.com(207.76.205.7) by whistle.com via smap (V1.3) id sma023776; Sun Feb 15 12:22:07 1998 Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id MAA25309; Sun, 15 Feb 1998 12:22:01 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <199802152022.MAA25309@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: Re: Fw: FreeBSD firewall questions In-Reply-To: <199802130318.WAA07752@sabre.goldsword.com> from "John T. Farmer" at "Feb 12, 98 10:18:37 pm" To: jfarmer@goldsword.com (John T. Farmer) Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 12:22:01 -0800 (PST) Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, joe@thebestisp.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org John T. Farmer writes: > 4. In almost every instance that one of my client's have installed > a cross-over cable between two Ethernet devices, they have ended > up replacing it shortly with a hub. Why? If you have two > machines wired together, soon there will be a reason to be > able to connect up the laptop from work, or Junior's PC, or... One more reason.. often the dual 10BaseT/100BaseT PC cards fail to auto-detect the correct speed unless they are connected to a hub (in my experience). Not sure exactly why this is... maybe it's a function of the general amount of traffic. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message