From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 2 11:37:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (mail.dobox.com [208.187.122.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0628837B479 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 11:37:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13rQBP-00007p-00; Thu, 02 Nov 2000 12:37:55 -0700 Message-ID: <3A01C293.5787199A@softweyr.com> Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 12:37:55 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Scheidt Cc: Stephen Hocking , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 16 port 10/100 hubs/switches. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Scheidt wrote: > > On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Stephen Hocking wrote: > > :I just went out & bought a D-Link 10/100 switch. There was another 16 port > :10/100 switch on sale by netgear, for twice the price. Now I've established > :that they're both switches (as opposed to hubs) and the three machines I > :current have connected to it have sucessfully negotiated 100Mbs full-duplex > :(speed is great!). Is there any reasons why I should've considered the netgear > :unit? I didn't see anything on the box (after a rather cursory perusal) on it > :about managability, SNMP et cetera. > > Probably not. If you don't see performance or reliability problems, no. > It's conceivable that one switch can't do 100MB full duplex to every port > at the same time. Actually, all these Taiwanese companies, Linksys, D-Link, NetGear, etc., make products that are amazingly similar. Usually the cheapest one is the newest design, and performance tends to favor the newest design as well. > It might, or might not, be the cheaper one. Without test > equipment its hard to say. (I've got a 5 port Dlink that I bought about New > Year's, which has been great.) Too bad nobody is around to do some creditable testing on them. I don't have access to a SmartBits anymore. I bought a NetGear FS105 in January and pounded it with a SmartBits, it was able to sustain just under 800 Mbps through 4 ports running full-duplex. I couldn't quite figure out how to add in the fifth port; I'm not a SmartBits expert. I have one of the new Linksys switches now, too, and expect it perform on par with the NetGear. The Linksys is slightly smaller, has a much more attractive plastic case, and cost only $69 at Fry's a couple of weeks ago. I have just about enough computers at home to do some testing with tcpdump or spray. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message