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Re: what about 48 bits?
From: Roland Perry <lists () internetpolicyagency com>
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 22:13:00 +0100
In article <201004071118.o37BIvK1022393 () aurora sol net>, Joe Greco <jgreco () ns sol net> writes
Unfortunately, power-cycling crashed PC's is (was?) pretty common, and many users are (were?) also trained to shut off PC's when done, so here you've introduced something that is by-design going to fail periodically.
OK, I agree that fitting a PC-powered hub into a client PC isn't the best decision in the world. But losing one segment of a 10Base-T LAN (which was the technology I used) is not the end of the world, and I took the precaution of installing the hub in my server.
Despite these potential operational banana skins, it was still a product that tipped me irrevocably into the world of Ethernet (having earlier toyed with pale imitations).
-- Roland Perry
Current thread:
- Re: what about 48 bits?, (continued)
- Re: what about 48 bits? Joe Greco (Apr 07)
- Re: what about 48 bits? Roland Perry (Apr 07)
- Re: what about 48 bits? Joe Greco (Apr 07)
- Hubs on a NIC (was:Re: what about 48 bits?) Lamar Owen (Apr 07)
- Re: Hubs on a NIC (was:Re: what about 48 bits?) Joe Greco (Apr 07)
- Re: Hubs on a NIC (was:Re: what about 48 bits?) Steven Bellovin (Apr 07)
- Re: Hubs on a NIC (was:Re: what about 48 bits?) Joe Greco (Apr 08)
- Re: Hubs on a NIC (was:Re: what about 48 bits?) Roland Perry (Apr 08)
- Re: what about 48 bits? Michael Thomas (Apr 07)
- Re: what about 48 bits? Michael Thomas (Apr 07)
- Re: what about 48 bits? Roland Perry (Apr 08)
- Re: what about 48 bits? A.B. Jr. (Apr 04)
- Re: what about 48 bits? Scott Howard (Apr 04)
- Re: what about 48 bits? Larry Sheldon (Apr 04)
- Re: what about 48 bits? Kevin Oberman (Apr 04)
- Re: what about 48 bits? Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 05)
- Re: what about 48 bits? Patrick W. Gilmore (Apr 05)
- Re: what about 48 bits? Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 05)
- Re: what about 48 bits? joel jaeggli (Apr 05)