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

[Joshua Boyd]

On Apr 28, 2008, at 7:09 AM, 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.

Actually, I never have either, I just hear people mention them here  
frequently enough.