From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 24 9:17:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from horst.bfd.com (horst.bfd.com [12.9.219.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F182014C49 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 09:16:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ejs@bfd.com) Received: from HARLIE.bfd.com (bastion.bfd.com [12.9.219.14]) by horst.bfd.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id JAA27779; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 09:16:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ejs@bfd.com) Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 09:16:05 -0700 (PDT) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" To: David Kelly Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cheap 10/100 switches? In-Reply-To: <199908241155.GAA11445@nospam.hiwaay.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, David Kelly wrote: > I see Allied Telesyn and LinkSys 10/100 switches are getting cheap. Is > there any particular disadvantage to using these brands over 3com, > Intel, HP, Cisco. etc? I use a LinkSys 8-port 10/100 switch at home to connect a FreeBSD box and several Win9X boxes, most with Intel EtherExpress cards. Basically, I've never had more than three FreeBSD boxes on that net at the same time, so my ability to stress the switch is limited, (the Win9X boxes are bottlenecked by the hard drives, the FreeBSD boxes are happy throwing null packets, so aren't bound the same way). I've managed to get more performance out of that than out of a hub, so I'm quite happy with it. Never had a problem with it, it just works, unlike the switches at work (3Coms never gave us a problem, SMCs do, and the unmarked one that we can't figure out doesn't like any 100Mb that isn't autonegotiated). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message