On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 09:48:50PM -0600, Tillman wrote: > On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 02:11:31PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > I've seen little difference. But DON"T BUY A HUB! Buy a switch > > instead. They'll give you better performance, and they hardly cost > > any more. > > Great advice. It looks like Cisco has even stopped listing hubs for sale > - layer two switching seems to firmly in control these days :-)
The price difference has really become almost non-existent--one thing that we've found to happen with some cheap switches (a year or so old, hasn't happened with newer cheap switches) is that if one moves a computer from one location to another, the switch seems to take its time flushing its tables and the box won't immediately be able to get an address. It's only happened once or twice with a VERY cheap Linksys (again, the switch is probably 1-2 years old, and this problem might be fixed by now). I should also add that we never fully determined that was the problem--it was usually a matter of trying this and that and eventually the box would get an address and only afterwards did we think of the switch as the culprit. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Gunn: Fair Cordelia. You still savin' my life? Cordelia: Every minute. Gunn: How's that workin' out? Cordelia: You're alive aren't you?
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