[Gllug] [OT]switch question.

itsbruce at uklinux.net itsbruce at uklinux.net
Tue Apr 8 17:17:36 UTC 2003


On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 05:59:55PM +0100, Peter Adamson wrote:
> The 4 computers talking to the switch _feels_ better,  is there a better 
> reason for having this?

No.  Not if one of the 4 is acting as a hub.  That's just creating a
point of failure and creating a bottleneck.  If that computer crashes or
suffers high load the others will also suffer.

-- 
Bruce

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