-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 11:43:40AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > I take minor issue with this blanket statement: a switch doesn't really > gain you anything unless you're getting enough traffic for collisions, > and takes away your ability to monitor everything (tcpdump, ethereal) > that's going on from one point, given that you have two or more other > computers having conversations of interest. > > Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Switch also buys you full-duplex Ethernet. And if you've got two computers running half-duplex, you're getting enough traffic to cause collisions. Switches also allow each segment's bandwidth to go unused instead of wasted by traffic not bound for that segment, as is the case for the hub. You get far better performance for about the same price with a switch. Why anybody would use a hub if they can at all avoid it in this day and age is beyond me. Packet sniffing tools are best suited for running on the same segment as a router, or the router itself, anyway. - -- .''`. Baloo Ursidae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+5Tg1J5vLSqVpK2kRAtyQAJ41L3Ix81EHgpSKfApKVvHnKx2dugCffhpV Mp8g6mGDZNX27HoFBuml+2s= =+KqG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
