And not all switches do as good a job as others. Where I used to work, we had three 3-Com 10/100 switches, but the 10Mb cards would disappear off the network after a while. Turning the switches off then on would make them come back, but then they'd die after a while again. Strangely enough, a cheap genius 10/100 switch seemed to do a better job, but it may have been dependent on our network.
In the end we fixed our problem by making the linux machine a router, and kept the 100Mb and 10Mb on two different subnets. (Most of the traffic was to/from the linux machine anyway, so it didn't really increase latency.) - Mark > You can mix and match, yes. However, if you have a simple hub, everything > connected to taht hub will drop to the slowest common denominator, > i.e. you're wasting your 100M cards. You want a switch, which adopts to > speed individually on each port. I have heard an 8-port one can be had for > $200, but I'm not sure whether that's true. You probably want a 16 anyway. > > Volker
