Re: home network
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 04:46:18PM -0700, Jason Majors wrote:
| Check out the net-3 howto.
Ok, thanks. linuxdoc.org I assume.
| You'll want to get a hub. I believe that the difference between a
| hub and switch is that (assuming both are 100Mbps), the hub can
| allow a maximum of 100Mbps of traffic (so two machines trying to
| transfer files from a server would get 50Mbps at most), and a switch
| allows 100Mbps per connection. Switches are also more expensive.
| Hubs are the better option for a typical low-traffic home setup.
Staples has a netgear hub with 2 NICs on sale for $60 here. I don't
know for sure, but I think the NICs are FA311 (Natl Semi chipset,
Donald Becker has a driver for it). I checked with CompUSA's web site
and found some LinkSys hubs and switches for about the same price (as
each other). Thanks (everyone) for the explanation of switch vs. hub.
I'll get the cheaper one, though lean for the (better) switch.
| For the hub, it probably won't matter what brand you get. There are
| some that are better than others, but unless you care whether a
| packet takes 3ms or 2.8ms to transfer, it won't matter much (I say
| go for a low price).
.2 ms difference? Think I'll notice ;-).
Does anyone have some ISA NICs they don't want/need anymore? 2 of the
machines are older and only have ISA slots. I started to skim the
Diskless how-to and it seems that I would have to flash the PROMs to
make the machines truly diskless xterminals. Is hard or dangerous?
Would it be easier (or even possible) to use a floppy (or cd if I get
a burner; oh, yeah, one of the machines doesn't have a cdrom) to boot,
then grab / from the network?
-D
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