From: Norman Palardy (palardyn_at_shaw.ca)
Date: Wed Apr 23 2003 - 16:15:51 PDT
On Wednesday, April 23, 2003, at 04:25 AM, Robert Benschop wrote:
> I never used a hub, only cross cable sand a router and what Betty said
> is 100% right about a router, maybe somebody with a hub cares to
> comment. (does a hub also assign internal IP numbers to the different
> port? I assume it does)
Hub's are basically stupid (at least consumer grade ones) and dont
assign anything
Switches are slightly smarter (and faster)
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