At 11:25 PM -0500 01/25/2003, Kevin Willis wrote: > What is the difference between a router and a hub?
A router intelligently moves packets from one network (circuit) to another. Home/Office-type Routers often perform other services too, such as NAT (ip spoofing), basic firewall (packet filtering), DNS Forwarding, DHCP, etc. A hub is like an electrical octopus, a dumb device that simply echos everything that comes into it back onto every one of its ports. A switch is an intelligent hub. It does the same thing as a hub, but the packets are sent only to the interface to which they're addressed. Switches are typically a lot faster (support higher throughput) and more expensive than hubs. >Right now I have a 4 port router with 4 computers attached. They >all share a DSL connection. I need more ports and was looking at a >couple of things with 8 ports. I am not sure if they are routers or >hubs though (they are used). Check to make sure your router supports more than 4 computers. Some routers are limited in the number of IP addresses they will talk to. If that's not a problem, then just get either a hub or a switch and attach its uplink port to one of the ports on your router. Kindof daisy-chaining two power strips... - Dan. -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
