quick network engineering review question
Gerald Combs
gerald at ethereal.com
Fri Jun 3 11:05:23 CDT 2005
Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> Precisely; and I would count fiber optic cable as a similar "extension" of the
> ethernet standards. Again, you can't plug fiber into your $10 five port hub;
> my real point is that all of these transports are incompatible with the
> standard local transport protocol and can't be directly connected.
My point:
The Ethernet standard goes way beyond the Netgear and D-Link stuff at
Best Buy. You can get a switch that supports gigabit Ethernet over
fiber (and port mirroring) for $50 + the cost of a GBIC:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=28040&item=5778910757&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW
Limiting Ethernet to a $10 five port hub is an artifical (and
unrealistic) distinction.
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