On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Dave Ihnat wrote: > On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 10:14:23PM -0800, Keith Morse wrote: > > Hub good, cross over cable bad, ugh. > > Praytell, why do you say so? A hub doesn't do anything except, maybe, > signal regeneration for long runs, almost certainly not an issue here. > Also, a crossover most certainly can handle full duplex--any/all modern > ethernet cards today can--while a hub can't. (Well, it might, if only two > devices are plugged in, but this breaks with more.) The ONLY advantage > of a hub over a crossover is if you want to add more devices.
Two reasons mainly. The first stems mainly from a corporate mentality. X-over cables have lead to some mighty frustrating troubleshooting session. And you do get link lights with these cables. The second is that I've had problems with auto-negotiation features of NIC's trying to figure out what they each should be. For the current price of a hub/switch, the aggravation isn 't worth it. The one time investment will last years. > > Heck, even 4 port 10/100 switches are decently priced anymore. > > That's quite true--and not only that, 100BaseT ethernet cards are > exceedingly affordable. Heck, I don't know if you can even *buy* 10BaseT > any more. In any case, I'd recommend anyone to NOT try to use surplus > or hand-me-down 10BaseT cards for a new installation. > > > And if you ever entice a friend, or as we call them, freshmeat, > > over to play any one of the ever so refreshing first person shooter > > games with you, the hub will facilitate it nicely. > > Howso? Unless they're adding additional machines, that is. If anything, > a hub--as opposed to a switch--will at best do nothing to the network > (2 machines) or slow it down due to collisions (more than two machines). Oh man, gotta bring your own machine. One the essential requirements of a lan party. > A switch, now, yes, that'll help you frag the newbie to gobbets faster. Aye, matey. _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
