From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 21 2:25:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 563661547A for ; Wed, 21 Jul 1999 02:25:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3/Kp) with ESMTP id KAA38111; Wed, 21 Jul 1999 10:22:52 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <37959139.8CF0641F@tdx.co.uk> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 10:22:01 +0100 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX - The Digital eXchange X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Vincent Poy Cc: sthaug@nethelp.no, dillon@apollo.backplane.com, mrcpu@internetcds.com, modred@ns1.antisocial.net, leifn@neland.dk, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: poor ethernet performance? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Vincent Poy wrote: > Well, the manual doesn't guarantee security either.... The only > thing the switch seems to do is give dedicated bandwidth to each port but > no one knows if it's a true switch since someone did mention a CableTron > switch being nothing but a bundled of hub ports inside grouped together. > Also, the management feature isn't suppose to affect data from being seen > on all the ports. Can this be moved off -hackers?, onto perhaps FreeBSD-Hubs? Or even, back to ye'olde -chat? :-) -Kp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message