[106517] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Hardware capture platforms
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Meek)
Thu Jul 31 14:47:43 2008
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:46:57 -0400
From: "Jon Meek" <meekjt@gmail.com>
To: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080731163136.GK28903@cgi.jachomes.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
I have had the same problem and solved it with a rare (even then)
100BT Only hub. I still have at least one stashed away.
For years though, I have been using bonding on Linux to combine multiple
tap streams. We also use hardware aggregators for the higher volume
applications.
Jon
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Jay R. Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
>
> 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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