[geeks] router[s] sought
Mouse
mouse at Rodents-Montreal.ORG
Tue Dec 4 22:24:03 CST 2012
> The thing is, unmanaged 10/100/1000 base-T switches, in 5-port and
> 8-port guise, are stupid cheap these days; there's no reason to use
> anything slower.
Actually, I disagree. "I already have it on hand" is a perfectly good
reason.
For that matter, so is "it's a hub rather than a switch, so I can
easily snoop all the traffic", in at least some cases. (And, as far as
I know, hubs don't exist above 10Mb - am I wrong in thinking that?)
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