[tech] Switches

[James Andrewartha]

On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Grahame Bowland wrote:

> Last night at the committee meeting we talked about equipping ourselves with 
> 10/100Mb switches so that we have an entirely 100Mb internal network. Having 
> the clubroom on a switch rather than a hub would also improve speed even if 
> most things only do 10Mb - especially with all that X traffic.

Err, I said this last night, but without a 100Mb card on the router, this
is pointless. One of the plan 9 boxen is a pentium and is already mounted
in a rackmount case ... would fryers miss it much if we made it the
router?

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