Charles N Wyble <[email protected]> wrote: > The TRW swap meet has them every month.
Hmm. The next one falls on a holiday weekend: I'm going to be in San Diego from Dec 24 through New Year - may be a bit hard to justify a drive from San Diego to Redondo Beach and back. > Yep. Cisco makes some 12 port switches. Readily finable at the swap meet. Doesn't have to be of Cisco grade. A consumer-grade 10/100 switch would be good enough as long as it has a decent number of ports (not 5) and is old enough to have been made in the pre-Gigabit era. > Uh.... does it have to be completely non gigabit? Can it have gigabit > upload ports? If it can then you can find numerous 10/100 switches at > various retailers. Well, if it has both Gigabit and non-Gigabit ports, and the number of non-Gigabit ports is decent (again would like somewhere on the order of 12), I suppose it could just ignore/tape over the Gigabit ones... > Frys would be where I would go. I'll look. > Actually a client of mine just bought a netgear switch that was 10/100 > only. Would he be willing to share a link as to where he bought it? > Why no gigabit? I have a couple theories about why that might be the > case, but I'll let you enlighten us :) The problem is that a lot of gear nowadays comes with Gigabit Ethernet ports without the customer asking for it. I don't want a random piece of gear to be trying to connect at Gigabit speeds without my knowledge or consent, and the easiest way to enforce a 100 Mbps speed limit is to ensure that none of the switches are Gigabit-capable. MS _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list [email protected] http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
