[geeks] router[s] sought

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

On 12/4/2012 11:24 PM, Mouse wrote:
>> 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?)
> 
There are 100Mbit hubs, but, there are cheap managed switches that run
100Mbit switched that allow you to set up a mirror port quite easily.