From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 8 16:45:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from whistle.com (s205m131.whistle.com [207.76.205.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C65837B404 for ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 16:45:00 -0800 (PST) Received: (from smap@localhost) by whistle.com (8.10.0/8.10.0) id f090ix214155 for ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 16:44:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from pau-amma.whistle.com( 207.76.205.64) by whistle.com via smap (V2.0) id xma014150; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 16:44:31 -0800 Received: (from dhw@localhost) by pau-amma.whistle.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f090iVi92824 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 16:44:31 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 16:44:31 -0800 (PST) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <200101090044.f090iVi92824@pau-amma.whistle.com> Subject: Re: Intel PRO/100+ driver or hardware? Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200101090024.f090O5K31687@earth.backplane.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 16:24:05 -0800 (PST) >From: Matt Dillon > I've had incredibly good luck with the netgear FS516 (16 port unmanaged > switch), more then I probably deserve. I haven't had a single problem > using them to distribute our office LAN. However, I get mixed results > with the smaller netgear switches (e.g. 5 and 8-port babies), and would > not recommend them. For whatever it might be worth, we swapped out just about all of the 4-, 5-, & 8-port mini-hubs from engineers' desks and replaced them with the 5- & 8-port NetGear 10/100 switches (FS105 & FS108). I then replaced the odd assortment of hubs & switches with 24-port NetGear switches. The sole problem was in communicating with an old Black Box device that converts between 10base-T & fiber. I circumvented that by interposing one of the dumb 5-port mini-hubs between the Black Box device & the switch. :-{ I liked the results enough to deploy an FS108 at home.... :-) Of course, YMMV. Cheers, david -- David Wolfskill dhw@whistle.com UNIX System Administrator Desk: 650/577-7158 TIE: 8/499-7158 Cell: 650/759-0823 I need help: http://www.whistle.com/employment/employ-engg.html#K030391 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message