[geeks] Seems like low-cost Cisco 10/100 switches are available

[Phil Stracchino]

Phil Stracchino wrote:
> Joshua Boyd wrote:
>> I don't think  a commodity gige switch is going to offer things like 
>> vlans or port mirroring, and I could see more advanced home users 
>> wanting both.  And I know I've heard people say they need the ability 
>> to turn off auto-negotiate and just set the port settings to the 
>> correct values to make things work with various fun equipment.
> 
> Sometimes I think I'm the only geek on the planet who's never had an 
> Ethernet auto-negotiation failure.

'course, then again, a lot of the time I feel like my geek cred has all 
trickled out anyway....


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