Re: Active v.s. Passive hubs
I think the difference is that a passive hub simply passes through
whatever it gets. An active hub retimes everything. In other words, an
active hub acts like eight separate NIC cards while a passive hub acts
like eight coax connections on a thin net. Take several base2->baseT
tranceivers and you have a passive hub ... several NICS on a backplane and
you have an active hub.
On Sat, 13 Dec 1997, Lawrence wrote:
> What is Active / Passive Hub? I thought all hub the same, now, I have
> to changed my mind.
>
> Lawrence
>
> Oz Dror wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > I am going to rewire all the phone lines in my home using grade 5 UTP wires.
> > I am also going to have a star configuration for phone and ethernet
> > wires. I have a Linux server and 2 or 3 NT clients. Even though I have three
> > or four computers. I will have 12 points in the network. One computer (laptop)
> > can be used in different locations. The longest run of a single wire is less
> > than 50 meters.
> >
> > Do I need Active of passive hub?
>
>
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