swithch and hub question
Lloyd Budd
lloyd-fEEwcc3XMu8jODpR/OX0VQ at public.gmane.org
Mon Jun 7 16:03:38 UTC 2004
On 7-Jun-04, at 11:56, hui xu wrote:
> All,
>
> I am building a home network using two computers. One
> computer having two network cards are used as server,
> the other has only one network card are used as client
> computer. My question is :
>
> 1.should I use a switch or hub between them? I tried
> directly connect these two computers without switch or
> hub. It seem that this structure doesn't work. both
> light on these network card are not on.
Direct connection -> cross-over cable
> 2. If the switch or hub is need, why and which kind is
> better?
I think this might have been discussed in detail previously
(last couple of years) on this mailing list .
You have not mentioned if you will be connecting to the
dangerous and evil web ;-)
Peace ,
Lloyd
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