Re: hubs and switches

[Mike Poor <mike () intelguardians com>]

Ron

good thing to post.  I found that most of the hubs were actually swubs, or switchable hubs.  They are hubs, with a 
switch between the 10 bus and the 100 bus.  If you can find a 10M Hub or a 100M hub, you should be good to go.

Mike

On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 02:04:28PM -0400, Ron Gula wrote:
> I know there are a lot of NIDS old-timers on here, but
> for the folks getting into monitoring, please be aware
> that many times, if you go to Best Buy or CompUSA (at least
> here in the US) and buy a hub, you may actually be
> getting a cheap switch. If you can find the documentation
> online for the hub, you may be able to tell if it behaves
> as a switch or is a real hub.
>
> Ron Gula, CTO
> Tenable Network Security
> http://www.tenablesecurity.com
>
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