[geeks] What is a managed hub, and why would you want one?

Greg A. Woods geeks at sunhelp.org
Tue Aug 14 13:52:59 CDT 2001


[ On Tuesday, August 14, 2001 at 15:55:58 (-0400), Ken Hansen wrote: ]
> Subject: [geeks] What is a managed hub, and why would you want one?
>
> A reseller I bumped into last night was offering managed Cisco "micro"
> 8 port 10/100hubs for $49 - seemed like a decent deal, but I'm not
> quite sure what the difference is?

"managed" == "has SNMP support" (almost always -- ancient telnet
interfaces are, for the most part, gone or redundant)

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