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Posted by P.Schuman on March 28, 2008, 5:32 pm
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>> Also, I'm playing around with networking here at home and I'm looking
>> for a very simple 100 Mbps hub, with about four ports maybe. I've got
>> switches but it's a hub I want so that I can listen to all the
>> traffic.
>
> 100 hubs are rather rare, outnumbered by switches and 10 hubs.
>
I do the same thing - I look on eBay for old 5 port 10mbps hubs
for the purpose of sniffing a network problem.
I don't think the 100mbps standard has a "hub", I think they are all
"switches".
I ran into that same problem, with the simple 10/100 device not repeating to
all ports.
The larger switches have an "monitoring" port that can echo all the traffic,
for these purposes.
SO - look for a 5-port 10mbps hub - NOT a 10/100 hub or switch - it won't
work.
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