[106507] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Hardware capture platforms
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Thu Jul 31 12:31:46 2008
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:31:36 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4890B72F.4070303@aset.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 02:47:11PM -0400, 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.
And, note carefully: some "dual-speed hubs" are actually a 10BT hub and
a 100BT hub *with a switch between them*. I forget which brand I
caught this on, but it bit me a couple of years back.
Which speed cable you plug in determines which hub you're talking to.
Yes, it's weird.
Cheers,
-- jra
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