[geeks] Hubs, Routers etc.

James james at jdfogg.com
Tue Jul 15 09:44:55 CDT 2003


A hub will pass anything to my knowledge. They are indiscriminate.

A switch should too, but might not if the manufacturer sucks.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: geeks-bounces at sunhelp.org [mailto:geeks-bounces at sunhelp.org]On
> Behalf Of Dan Williams
> Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 3:40 AM
> To: geeks at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [geeks] Hubs, Routers etc.
> 
> 
> I am looking for a hub for home which will pass mop and other boot 
> requests, After the best part of a day messing yesterday I found two 
> that I have don't. The only one that does work is a dsl router which 
> only has four ports (and is needed). Is there an easy way of finding out 
> which will and won't before buying, or can someone recommend any. This 
> is only for hobby use at home, so it doesn't need to be a 200 port cisco 
> jobbie.
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Dan
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