Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 12:22:01 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: jfarmer@goldsword.com (John T. Farmer) Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, joe@thebestisp.com Subject: Re: Fw: FreeBSD firewall questions Message-ID: <199802152022.MAA25309@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199802130318.WAA07752@sabre.goldsword.com> from "John T. Farmer" at "Feb 12, 98 10:18:37 pm"
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John T. Farmer writes: > 4. In almost every instance that one of my client's have installed > a cross-over cable between two Ethernet devices, they have ended > up replacing it shortly with a hub. Why? If you have two > machines wired together, soon there will be a reason to be > able to connect up the laptop from work, or Junior's PC, or... One more reason.. often the dual 10BaseT/100BaseT PC cards fail to auto-detect the correct speed unless they are connected to a hub (in my experience). Not sure exactly why this is... maybe it's a function of the general amount of traffic. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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