Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 13:55:17 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@render.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: 100BASE-TX hubs Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.960805134630.10082C-100000@minnow.render.com>
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[This is somewhat off-topic but it seemed likely that a few people reading this list might know the answer] I was thinking of building a small 100BASE-TX network at home to try and stress-test our NFS code and also investigate its performance. It seems to me that I need a hub of some kind but I can't find any reasonably priced 100BASE-TX products at all. The best I can come up with is the SMC 5108TX which at $1595 for 8 ports (and I only want two or three) is wildly expensive compared to an 8 port 10BASE-TX hub. Are there any suppliers of low cost 100Mbps ethernet hubs out there (preferably with a UK distributor)? Alternatively, can I avoid a hub altogether? I vaguely remember something about a wire-swapped cable which could connect two systems together. How would I go about buying/making such a cable? On the other hand, maybe I will just scrounge some old 10Mbps equipment :-( -- Doug Rabson, Microsoft RenderMorphics Ltd. Mail: dfr@render.com Phone: +44 171 251 4411 FAX: +44 171 251 0939
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