From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 19 13:17:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from orthanc.ab.ca (orthanc.ab.ca [207.167.3.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E273151FB for ; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 13:17:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca) Received: from orthanc.ab.ca (localhost.orthanc.ab.ca [127.0.0.1]) by orthanc.ab.ca (8.10.0.Beta6/8.10.0.Beta6) with ESMTP id dBJLH2Q37983 for ; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 14:17:03 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199912192117.dBJLH2Q37983@orthanc.ab.ca> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 18 Dec 1999 20:43:45 PST." <199912190443.UAA01335@apollo.backplane.com> Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 14:17:01 -0700 From: Lyndon Nerenberg Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Dillon writes: Matthew> :At work I've got experience with 32-port D-Link 10/100 Matthew> switched :hub. It works fine except that it hangs Matthew> occasionally (can be :reset by power-cycling). So we Matthew> don't buy them any more. Also :at my pre-previous Matthew> employer we had small 8-port 10Mpbs hubs from :D-Link and Matthew> they had the same problem, so it seems to be a family Matthew> :problem. With about 20 hubs there was a hang Matthew> approximately every :other day. : :-SB Matthew> Oh joy. Well, we'll see what happens with this one. As a counter-point, we have five D-Link 24 port hubs with the 10/100 switch module, SNMP, and a fibre link between the two stacks. They've been running for a year (almost to the day) and we haven't ever seen one lock up. The DFE-530TX's have been giving me good throughput, although they usually fail to autosense a 10 Mb/s network correctly. And FWIW, I just picked up a D-Link DSH II eight port 10/100 hub yesterday. It has a switch between the 10/100 segments, which means I can now get my PAO-based laptop on the network at home (@10 Mb/s). It ran me CAN$249 retail at the corner computer store. (That's about USD$160.) --lyndon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message