Re: Switch or Hub

On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 07:11:23PM -0500, Eval Bladimir Bacca Cortes wrote:

> I'm implementing a cluster that uses OpenMosix, but, I don't know if a 
> switch or a hub is better in order to connect the cluster, I didn't have 
> found a technical criteria to decide this.  Please, someone could you 
> help me with this?

1.) There are no Gigabit Ethernet switches
2.) It's 2006, even when you are a Fast-Ethernet fan, you'll have a hard
    time to get a new Hub.

Just forget the Hub thing, that is something of the past.
(latency: it will be hard to actually show this theoretical
advantage)

Regards
Christian Leber

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