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Tracy Walter wrote:
> 
> In article <3308da9c.11624158@news2.magmacom.com>,
>    sconnell@dipix.com (Shawn Douglas Connelly) wrote:
> >I am planing the purchase of a 100base-T switch.
> >
> >Hopefully, there exists an Ethernet switch with two 100Base-T ports
> >and four 10Base-T ports.
> >
> >I plan to segment my current four 10Base-T concentrators into the
> >100Base-T switch and run the two 100Base-T ports out to my two servers
> >(Novell 4.10 file server / NT 4.1 application and internet server).
> >
> >Problems:
> >* I have only found switches with *one* 100Base-T port, four 10Base-T
> >* There are many to choose from....and no reviews to work from.
> >* My budget is limited to around $2000.00 CDN
> >
> I've used the Microdyne Eagle 4X4 Switch with good success. It has 4 100Base-T
> ports and 4 10Base-T.
> 
> With a little shopping around you should be able to get it for around $2k U.S.
> 
> Tracy

I am not completely sure, if I made a response to your question
ealier. Please excuse, if you get the same information again.
What I wan�t to say: please be very careful with cheap switches.
I strongly recommend to ask your dealer for "backpressing" or
"flow management". Otherwise your switch could throw away
packets (this is not forbidden) and that could be the reason
for a somewhat oddly network behaviour. For more details you could
look to the homepage of NBASE (one manufacturer of switches without
any packet loss). There is a very nice description of this problem
available (unfortunable NBASE switches are horribly expensive).

Rainer Haessner
rh@linda.org.chemie.tu-muenchen.de