[ale] OT Linksys primiscuous mode

[Greg Clifton]

At low cost of hardware these days (5 port 10/100 switch for on the order of
$15) and a switches generally being preferred over hubs for performance
reasons, I expect you are right that a hub will be hard to find. Can you
tell me why a hub would be preferred over a switch in this situation?
MG,
GC

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Ed Cashin <ecashin at noserose.net> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 5:18 AM, jtholmes <linux at jtholmes.com> wrote:
> > Ed
> >
> > Port mirroring on the uplink. However another post
> > suggested a Hub on the Uplink port and I had not
> > thought of that scenario and that will work just fine.
> > thanks for your input
>
> Don't mention it.
>
> If you don't mind, would you please follow up with an overview
> of how easy it is to buy hubs today?  I remember last time I
> bought one they were getting harder to find than switches.
>
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