From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Nov 30 2: 0: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF77637B405 for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 02:00:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish (win.atkielski.com [10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id fAU9xux07204; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 10:59:56 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <03e101c17985$c4b82be0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: Cc: References: <3C06C1AF.16219.B78634@localhost> Subject: Re: Feeding the Troll (Was: freebsd as a desktop ?) Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 10:59:57 +0100 Organization: Anthony's Home Page (development site) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Freddie writes: > The outside DSL line is not the only communications > medium in use here. You said "routers for DSL/cable." I don't know of any DSL or cable connections that exceed 10 Mbps. > Limiting your internal LAN to a 10 mbit *hub* is > pointless nowadays unless you are only worried about > the occasional file transfer between computers. Probably. But these routers maintain hub transfers at 100 Mbps, even when you plug other machines directly into the on-board hub of the router. And even if you find a router that does not do this, you can just plug it into a cheap switch that does. In any case, I haven't been very successful at pushing my LAN to 100 Mbps (12.5 MB/s), even with direct connections between machines. The best I've been able to do is perhaps 20 Mbps, so something else is in the way. > Also, having your main network gateway and all > internal communication pass through the same > point is not good security policy. Why not? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message