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Date:      Sun, 15 Feb 1998 12:22:01 -0800 (PST)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
To:        jfarmer@goldsword.com (John T. Farmer)
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, joe@thebestisp.com
Subject:   Re: Fw: FreeBSD firewall questions
Message-ID:  <199802152022.MAA25309@bubba.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <199802130318.WAA07752@sabre.goldsword.com> from "John T. Farmer" at "Feb 12, 98 10:18:37 pm"

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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

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