[tech] Switches and hubs...

[Nick Bannon]

On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 02:58:50PM +0800, David Manchester wrote:
> I've got to admit that I missed it. Hence me asking.
> Got a pointer to it somewhere..?
[...]

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Well, it could be the router, then the best option would probably be
to re-arrange the network to put the router on the 100 network and then
router the whole 101 network through it, and reconfigure all our backbone
systems of course.

My preferred network layout:

               100.x incoming
                      | 10M       10M
    +-------------- router ----------------+
    | 100M            | 100M               |
10/100 switch      10/100 hub            delni/hub/...
| | | | | | |      | | | ||||            |||||||||||||
fast boxen and     fast but insecure     dec net/user net/...
one or more        boxen, xterms
10Mbps hubs        etc, maybe 10M hub

maybe with another 10M interface out of the router that I can't draw yet.

The 2 x 100Mbps network cards for the router would need committee
to approve though, and it would also be nice to run the router in a
system that can take 4 x PCI network cards (can the present one?) -
the 2 existing 10M ones and 2 new 100M ones (hence it would have to stay
FreeBSD for the existing 10M 3com cards).
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The new 100BaseT network cards might be about $114 for 3Coms, and $60-$70
for D-Link DFE-530TX'es or Netgear tulip's like Grahame's.

Nick.

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