Actually, you can probably get by with 10BT unless you plan to build a
mini-Beowulf. The hubs are all pretty good, and it would be nice if you
had 8 lines plus an uplink or a BNC connector. If you want to spend money
liberally, find the best CAT 5 cables you can buy and get a new hub if ever
you go to 100.
More important is finding some good scripts to use ipchains and laying out
a plan for nfs and other services. If you would like them all to be on the
internet at once through a single connection, the gateway stuff can be
tricky. Some good examples are available by searching appindex at
freshmeat.net, though I have been analyzing why PaNTs won't work with Venus
for a while. An old system based on ipfwadm might be available from
infomagic... Their excellent but discontinued workgroup server software.
Petey wrote:
I just came across a few extra computers (2 Macs and 3-486's and I'm
putting linux on every one). My question is what properties in a hub
should I be looking for so that I can network them all. I know I want
10/100BT autosensing, but what else should I be looking for? Thanks for
any help.
Petey
