Harry Hoffman writes: > Robert, > > Glad to hear it's working again :-) > > Have you considered reasearching "true" 100bt hubs (ie-> something from hp or > cisco) and then searching for it on ebay? It may turn out to be your best bet as > there is still alot of older equip. on ebay that would probably meet your needs > in terms of the hub only. Well, I haven't condemmed the hubs just yet. Before I bought them, I contacted the manufacturer via their tech support phone line, and I verified that the units I was interested in were indeed true hubs, and not switches. I specifically asked if every packet transmitted thru the hub would appear on every port of that hub, and they answered yes. They also make a 10/100baseT switch for about the same price, so I assume they understand the difference. If I can't work this out by tomorow, I will give them another call. If it turns out that these devices are not really hubs after all, then I am going to be really upset! I suspect that these are intelligent store-and-forward units that are almost the same as switches, operating as follows: 1. A packet is sent to the device. 2. The device reads the packet into a holding buffer. 3. The device sends the buffer contents to all other ports. Now with this logic, each port could be operating in any of the 4 modes of full-10, full-100, half-10, or half-100, since the input and output are buffered. Note that if the device examines the MAC address in the incoming packet, then if it only sends it to a port it has received packets from previously with that same MAC address as source, then you have a switch instead of a hub. I expect that the hub and the switch are identical devices, differentiated only by a firmware option, or perhaps a jumper internally. Incidently, the hubs I am using are Linksys EFAH08W units, as shown here: http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?grid=34&scid=31&prid=54 -- -------- "And there came a writing to him from Elijah" [2Ch 21:12] -------- R. J. Brown III rj@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.elilabs.com/~rj voice 859 567-7311 Elijah Laboratories Inc. P. O. Box 166, Warsaw KY 41095 fax 859 567-7311 ----- M o d e l i n g t h e M e t h o d s o f t h e M i n d ------ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
