Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 22:50:26 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price Message-ID: <v04210104b484a826ab4b@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <385C789C.DD290597@softweyr.com> References: <199912190410.UAA01049@apollo.backplane.com> <385C789C.DD290597@softweyr.com>
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At 11:18 PM -0700 12/18/99, Wes Peters wrote: >Matthew Dillon wrote: > > Prices have fallen a lot in the last year. I'm happy to be able to > > get rid of my HUBs, I was constantly having to deal with packet loss > > when running saturation tests and never able to figure out what > > was causing it. > >Switches are a better solution, no doubt about it. They are well worth >the cost, even if you're just trying to pep up an old 10Base-T network. >Investing in 10Base-T switches at this time is a false economy; for only >a few dollars more per port you can get 10/100 switches like yours and >upgrade machines to Fast Ethernet as budget allows. Getting back to the topic of switches, I've recently bought three different "reasonably cheap" 10/100 switches for some testing. One thing I would have liked to have had was an option to "mirror" the traffic of one port on some other port. I've got one of those non-peppy 10base-T networks I have to connect to, and I'd like to be able to have one of "my machines" (on the 10/100 switch) be able to see all traffic on that 10base-T network. All three of the switches I bought do not have configuration options to do something like this (which is fine...), but I was wondering how much one has to fork out before you get extra options like a port-mirroring capability... --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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