Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 23:09:56 -0800 (PST) From: Jim Shankland <jas@flyingfox.com> To: joe@thebestisp.com Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fw: FreeBSD firewall questions Message-ID: <199802120709.XAA03963@biggusdiskus.flyingfox.com>
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> And second [with a hub] you can't expect to get better that 60%(+-) > ie: 6Mbps rather than 10Mbps throughput so you are paying for latency > and collissions.. Woops. Crap detector just went off. You should actually try this out; do your two hosts that get 10 Mb/s throughput on a point-to-point cable get 6 Mb/s throughput when those two hosts (only) are connected through a hub? If so, throw the hub into the trashcan and get another. You're right, though, that a hub is unnecessary to connect two hosts point-to-point. And if the interface cards support it, you can run the point-to-point line in full-duplex; for that matter, with 10/100 cards running $60 or less, at 100 Mb/s. 100 Mb hub and switch prices are dropping fast, but they're not yet down to a trivial level. Jim Shankland Flying Fox Computer Systems, Inc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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