[tech] Switches

[Grahame Bowland]

On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 03:40:31PM +0800, James Andrewartha wrote:
> 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?

We have a Pentium-based router with two 100Mb cards half constructed. It's 
all good. Someone seems to have pinched one of the two cards though - I 
suspect [TDH] took it for testing compatibility with normal Tulips.

The reason I sent email about this is that it's a good thing to do as well 
as upgrading the router. We talked about upgrading the router last night.

Cheers,
Grahame

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Grahame Bowland - http://gbowland.ucc.asn.au/