From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Feb 14 15:51:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA13934 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Sat, 14 Feb 1998 15:51:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sabre.goldsword.com (sabre.goldsword.com [199.170.202.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA13917 for ; Sat, 14 Feb 1998 15:51:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jfarmer@sabre.goldsword.com) Received: (from jfarmer@localhost) by sabre.goldsword.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA03324; Sat, 14 Feb 1998 13:01:25 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 13:01:25 -0500 (EST) From: "John T. Farmer" Message-Id: <199802141801.NAA03324@sabre.goldsword.com> To: dkelly@hiwaay.net, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fw: FreeBSD firewall questions Cc: jfarmer@goldsword.com Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 13 Feb 1998 22:22:09 -0600 David Kelly said: >Broke down last week when I saw SVEC 8-port hubs with 10base2 BNC too at >http://www.onsale.com for $39.95. Bid for one (of 27 in that auction) >and got it. $10 for UPS ground shipping wasn't as good a deal. No >exhaustive definitive testing, but it appears to function as claimed. Sheesh! And I thought the $129 each I paid for a couple of Maxtech hubs at Datacomm 3 years ago was cheap! The electronics used in a base 10baseT hub have standardized to the level that basic PC chipsets have, even cheap "run of the mill" ones are fairly decent. Of course, for mission-critial hubs, I still stick with the "big guys" if only for the monitoring & stablity. I use one of the Maxtechs on my build & test bench, the other is for the household network. (What your house _isn't_ wired with cat-5?) John ------------------------------------------------------------------------- John T. Farmer Proprietor, GoldSword Systems jfarmer@goldsword.com Public Internet Access in East Tennessee Office: (423)691-6498 for info, e-mail to info@goldsword.com Network Design, Internet Services & Servers, Consulting To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message