[rescue] SMP on intel wasteful?

[Gary Nichols]

I've done the same - I picked up 24-port 10Mb managed switches (2 100Mb 
ports for uplinks) for near nothing.  eBay is full of 'em.  They are 
Compaq 5226a's - good switches, except that the fans are LOUD.

On 25 Jun 2002, Chris Hedemark wrote:
> I keep 100Mbps connections to the necessary machines.  But most of the
> boxes are fine at 10Mbps and the hardware is increasingly available for
> free.  I just picked up a couple of rack mount managed hubs for free
> over the weekend, each one with around 50 ports available.  For a 1500sf
> house I will never even get into the second hub unless I have all of my
> machines on at once.