From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Oct 6 11:46:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA18863 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 11:46:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware) Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.210.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA18855 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 11:46:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@sdf.com) Received: from tom by misery.sdf.com with smtp (Exim 1.71 #1) id 0xII9p-0005f9-00; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 11:45:29 -0700 Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 11:45:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom 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 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. Well personally, I'd never use a 100bt hub, ever. A 24 port 10bt switch has much higher aggregate bandwith than a 100bt hub. The Cisco Catalyst 1900 is nice, and has 2 100bt ports for connection to the backbone. The maximum aggregate bandwidth of the Catalyst 1900 is 440mbs, while a 100bt hub is just 100mbs. > 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 Tom