switch and hub question

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 10:15:20AM -0400, Charly Baker wrote:
> On Monday June 7 2004 8:43 pm, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 
> There are some good reasons to prefer a hub to a switch for a home network, 
> the most important to me is that if there is a problem and I have to diagnose 
> it one of the first things I want to do is to plug into the hub and watch the 
> traffic between the machines that are having the problems.  You lose this 
> option with a switch.  Even if you aren't diagnosing a particular problem it 
> can be very interesting, educational, and sometimes even useful just to sit 
> and watch the traffic.  It beats TV by a long shot.

I have never had a case where running tcpdump on both of the affected
machines wasn't good enough.

Besides if you are desperate, get a PC with two NICs and set it up as a
bridge.  Now you can really see what is going on. :)

No, hubs are really dead.

Lennart Sorensen
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