19 Aug
2004
19 Aug
'04
15:12
Quoting James Knott
I have an old 10 Mb hub, between my firewall and cable modem, just for that purpose. You can also buy devices (I forget what they're called) just for that purpose, that can be plugged between a switch and other device, without forcing the connection to half duplex, the way a hub would.
They are called taps. You will need two, one for each direction. They are expensive. A hub with too much bandwidth is generally good enough. E.g. a 10Mbps hub in front of a 3Mbps cable modem isn't much of a bottleneck. Jeffrey