[106487] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Hardware capture platforms
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Newman)
Wed Jul 30 19:34:19 2008
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:34:04 -0700
From: David Newman <dnewman@networktest.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Jon Kibler wrote:
> Hubs are still available that are REAL hubs. I got 4 netgears about a
> year ago and they are still available.
>
> However, there is a problem with your specification: No hub (that I am
> aware of) can do 1Gbps. All hubs are 10/100 AFAIK.
Grand Junction made a gigabit Ethernet repeater around 1996. It was
based on the "carrier extension" part of the gigabit Ethernet
spec that allows for half-duplex operation. Carrier extension pads any
frame shorter than 512 bytes to be 512 bytes long.
For that reason (in case frame size distribution matters), as well as
the tons of collisions that others have mentioned, I'd also stay away
from hubs for the OP's needs.
Also, many 10/100 hubs have a 2-port switch to move frames between
speeds, so it's conceivable that even a "hub" may have multiple
collision domains.
dn
