Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 19:57:48 -0800 From: Kevin Stevens <Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Hubs and switches (was: uninformed qstn...) Message-ID: <35651346-0F18-11D7-9645-003065715DA8@pursued-with.net> In-Reply-To: <20021214034131.GH503@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On Friday, Dec 13, 2002, at 19:41 US/Pacific, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > I have three switches in my network: a Cisco 2900 (24 ports), a > Netgear FS105 (5 ports) and a D-Link DSS-8+ (8 ports), in rapidly > decreasing order of cost. I've never had any trouble with any of > them. It's possible that the cheap switches might have trouble with > sustained throughput: an 8 port 100 Mb/s switch can theoretically be > confronted with a load of 800 Mb/s. 1,600 Mb/s. > I believe the D-Link can do this > speed, though I can't find the docco. No 100 Mb/s hub will have a > bandwidth of more than 100 Mb/s, however, and even that is limited by > collisions. I saw a test a few months ago of several low-end switches, and they were all non-blocking with similar performance. Pretty much a commodity item at this point. KeS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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