tpanzarella (harley) on Tue, 20 Mar 2001 12:30:28 -0500 |
I think Jeff and Charles gave a thorough enough explaination of the functional differences between switches and hubs, so in a nutshell if your looking for performance and security (less exposure to packet sniffers) and you have the $$ a switch is the way to go. One thing to note is that sometimes you want the features of hub over a switch. One scenario where a hub might be better is if you wanted to log all packets to and from all hosts on a particular network segment (whether it be for security purposes, traffic logging, etc.) then the fact that a hub sends all traffic to all ports actually helps you. You may want to put an IDS (Intrusion Detection System) such as Snort (http://www.snort.org) or even just run tcpdump on one of the machines on that network segment in order to capture all packets. Just something to think about. --t. Drexel Development Group wrote: Hi all! -- C-x C-c
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