Hubs on a NIC (was:Re: what about 48 bits?)

[jgreco at ns.sol.net (Joe Greco)]

> When I had the need to wire a building around 1987, I opted for the 
> multiport 10Base5 repeaters that DEC made -- they were called DELUAs, 
> I think.  I'd had quite enough of distributed single points of failure,
> thank you.

Think those were something else;

DEMPR = Digital Ethernet Multi Port Repeater
DELNI = Digital Ethernet Local Network Interconnect ("hub")

Threw some away a few years ago.

> Hey, I had that in my house on my 100BaseT network, till I upgraded 
> to gigE and had to give in and buy another switch.  (Sigh -- home 
> network configurations of NANOGers.  I'm contemplating putting in 
> VLANs now...)

VLAN's == fun

... JG
-- 
Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net
"We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I
won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN)
With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.