Gigabit Speed.
Awhile back, ask on these forums about a 10/100 router to use for my home network. well, it's just not fast enough for me anymore. I'm going to gigabit. Which gigabit switch is the best most reliable, and fastest? There's so many to choose from. I'd like to find something nice looking so it doesn't hurt the eyes, but still performes. I like the look of Belkins 5 port, and linksys's 8 port switch (what's the difference between linksys's workgroup gigabit switch and reg gigabit switch?). I'm going to be buying to of them, which ever I choose. I need to connect at least 10 cables. Will these switches have a built in firewall, and hide my ip's of the computer behind the main ip?
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Originally posted by AirSluf
In general switches are relatively stupid and do just one thing--switch. Stuff like firewalls usually require routers which may have an integrated switch as part of the package.
Not really, Hubs are stupid Layer 1 devices but Switches are very intelligent Layer2 and 3 devices.
DSL routers and such have mini switches/hubs built in, but normally your router will have a port for the type of network you are connecting to (E1, T1, ISDN, AUI).
From here you go to the Switch/routers where you can create muliple routes per port where a simple router on a switch solution isn't required.
Dobby.
Originally posted by dobby
Not really, Hubs are stupid Layer 1 devices but Switches are very intelligent Layer2 (and some are also Layer3) devices.
DSL routers and such have mini switches/hubs built in, but normally your router will have a port for the type of network you are connecting to (E1, T1, ISDN, AUI).
From here you go to the Switch/routers where you can create muliple routes per port where a simple router on a switch solution isn't required.
Dobby.
We use several GS108's for the G5s at my office; they seem to work fine.
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Originally posted by AirSluf
Layer x,y,z they still just switch. Layers are just a conceptual abstraction, not a description of software/hardware intelligence. A backplane doesn't have much if any decision-making capability built beyond the packet switching it is designed for.
I could build a layer 7 (or 14) switch if I wanted to do something stupid and wanted to flaunt an abstraction war with different layering descriptions. But in the end I would still just have a switch, only because I left as much unused potential as I would have to on the table.
Very true, but switches that utilise spanning tree, multi-layer switching etc are not the same as your switches that 'just' switch.
Why do you have a Mac as a computer, it only processes information.
Dobby.