[125075] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: what about 48 bits?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Perry)
Thu Apr 8 17:14:37 2010
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 22:13:00 +0100
To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Roland Perry <lists@internetpolicyagency.com>
In-Reply-To: <201004071118.o37BIvK1022393@aurora.sol.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
In article <201004071118.o37BIvK1022393@aurora.sol.net>, Joe Greco
<jgreco@ns.sol.net> writes
>Unfortunately, power-cycling crashed PC's is (was?) pretty common, and
>many users are (were?) also trained to shut off PC's when done, so here
>you've introduced something that is by-design going to fail periodically.
OK, I agree that fitting a PC-powered hub into a client PC isn't the
best decision in the world. But losing one segment of a 10Base-T LAN
(which was the technology I used) is not the end of the world, and I
took the precaution of installing the hub in my server.
Despite these potential operational banana skins, it was still a product
that tipped me irrevocably into the world of Ethernet (having earlier
toyed with pale imitations).
--
Roland Perry
