From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Oct 6 10:25:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA12951 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 10:25:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware) Received: from h2o.journey.net (h2o.journey.net [207.227.162.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA12945 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 10:25:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from listuser@h2o.journey.net) Received: from localhost (listuser@localhost) by h2o.journey.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id NAA00313; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 13:25:13 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 13:25:13 -0400 (EDT) From: listuser To: "Ron G. Minnich" cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 100bt switches and hubs In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk We have noticed that the Bay switches out perform our asante under NFS traffic loads and http traffic loads. However ftp is pretty much the same across both types.. Quick conclusion large files not problem with Asante lots of small files they are probably not the best choice.. (However they do perform better tahnstandard dumb hubs.) --Matt On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, Ron G. Minnich wrote: > I'm looking for recommendations on 24-port 100bt hubs, and switches. Of > course, they should be as close to free as possible. I'm currently > looking at some asante hubs for $800? any opinions here? I need to wire > up 64 machines. If I could do all switched that's the best. > > ron > > Ron Minnich |Java: an operating-system-independent, > rminnich@sarnoff.com |architecture-independent programming language > (609)-734-3120 |for Windows/95 and Windows/NT on the Pentium > ftp://ftp.sarnoff.com/pub/mnfs/www/docs/cluster.html > > >