Re: Use of Taps for IDS

From: Greg Shipley (gshipley@neohapsis.com)
Date: 02/28/02 

Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 10:51:43 -0600 (CST)
From: Greg Shipley <gshipley@neohapsis.com>
To: "Samuel f. Stover" <sstover@enterasys.com>

On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Samuel f. Stover wrote:

> Last I heard a "switching-hub" was a device that:
>
> - hubs all 10-Mbit/s connections
> - hubs all 100-Mbit/s connections
> - switches between 10 Mbit/s and 100Mbit/s connections

See, I always thought that was just a 10/100 HUB. My understanding was
that in most 10/100 HUBS the 10 and the 100 segments were bridged. A
semantics issue? Perhaps, but IMHO there's a difference between bridging
two segments (together), and switching.

But maybe I'm just weird like that.
(don't answer that, either) :)

-Greg

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