Setting up a network and sharing internet

[James Knott]

Henry Spencer wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Peter wrote:
>>My older hub has one 10Base2 and 5 (?) 10BaseT sockets. While not 
>>cable-only this 10MBps hub will likely cost less than a cable crimper 
>>(2nd hand) ;-)
> 
> Admittedly, I should have qualified my comment about price with "unless
> you frequent the surplus stores". :-)
> 
> I've likewise got a hub which also speaks 10Base2, and a couple of cards
> which do.  Never used that capability, though.

One thing 10 Mb hubs are still useful for, is testing.  You can insert a
computer running ethereal between a computer and switch.  The
disadvantage is that you've now changed the connection to half duplex
and possible also forced a 100 Mb or gigabit NIC to run at 10 Mb.

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