From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Nov 5 1:30:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mao.stokely.org (mao.stokely.org [65.84.64.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1E8037B405 for ; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 01:30:12 -0800 (PST) Received: by mao.stokely.org (Postfix, from userid 2074) id 2A08C4B65D; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 01:30:11 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 01:30:11 -0800 From: Murray Stokely To: Hiten Pandya Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: use switches instead of hubs in our examples Message-ID: <20011105013011.A1818@windriver.com> References: <20011105092712.4961.qmail@web21101.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011105092712.4961.qmail@web21101.mail.yahoo.com>; from hitmaster2k@yahoo.com on Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 01:27:12AM -0800 X-GPG-Key-ID: 1024D/0E451F7D X-GPG-Key-Fingerprint: E2CA 411D DD44 53FD BB4B 3CB5 B4D7 10A2 0E45 1F7D Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 01:27:12AM -0800, Hiten Pandya wrote: > i was thinking that... wouldn't it be better if we > used switches rather than hubs in those examples > provided in the "Advanced Networking" chapter... They are just examples. I don't see many advantages to using one over the other when the point of the example is to describe some other aspect of networking. If you think our "Advanced Networking" chapter could use a better description of the difference between a switch and a hub, then by all means please contribute a patch. > example1: isdn-twisted-pair > example2: natd > > the reason for this is that... for performance' > sake, > switches are better than hubs and there is a lot > less > congestion... i read that in a CCNA book ;) This is irrelevant when we are talking about setting up ISDN or natd. Thanks, - Murray To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message