From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 5 05:52:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA15946 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 05:52:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from minnow.render.com (render.demon.co.uk [158.152.30.118]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA15941 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 05:52:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from minnow.render.com (minnow.render.com [193.195.178.1]) by minnow.render.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA10391 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 13:55:17 +0100 Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 13:55:17 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: 100BASE-TX hubs Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [This is somewhat off-topic but it seemed likely that a few people reading this list might know the answer] I was thinking of building a small 100BASE-TX network at home to try and stress-test our NFS code and also investigate its performance. It seems to me that I need a hub of some kind but I can't find any reasonably priced 100BASE-TX products at all. The best I can come up with is the SMC 5108TX which at $1595 for 8 ports (and I only want two or three) is wildly expensive compared to an 8 port 10BASE-TX hub. Are there any suppliers of low cost 100Mbps ethernet hubs out there (preferably with a UK distributor)? Alternatively, can I avoid a hub altogether? I vaguely remember something about a wire-swapped cable which could connect two systems together. How would I go about buying/making such a cable? On the other hand, maybe I will just scrounge some old 10Mbps equipment :-( -- Doug Rabson, Microsoft RenderMorphics Ltd. Mail: dfr@render.com Phone: +44 171 251 4411 FAX: +44 171 251 0939