On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 03:22:00PM +0200, Jean Francois Ortolo wrote:
> Yes Sir
> However, in France a DSL line bandwith only approaches 512 Kbits/sec,
> i.e. 64 KBytes/sec.
My point was that the limiting factor on speed within your network was
going to be the DSL line, not packet collisions internal to the network.
>
> Anyway, I was thinking of the collisions between the packets inside
> the lan, I just realized that's not a problem with the 10/100 Mbits/sec
> bandwith of a classic RJ45 wire.
>
> Only one problem: The way I got for this project, is a simple
> computer connected with an ADSL line, with two Ethernet cards, one for
> the ADSL modem, the other for the lan, with masquerading and firewalling
> configuration.
>
> So there is no need for a hub, no ?
If you already have a hub that the client machines are connected to, then
no, you don't need another hub. The setup that you are describing is just
as I have at my home office as a matter of fact :-)
>
> Many thanks for your response.
- jkt
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