RE: [Ethereal-users] Capturing Packets with IBM Thinkpad

[Richard Urwin <RUrwin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> To the best of my knowledge this device does 
> not function as a switch (unless you know different).

>From the Linksys support page for the EFAH05W:

Switch VS. Hub.
All Linksys Switches provide for Full-Duplex speed and cut down the
traffic on the network by sending the packets only to the port on the
workstation is to receive the information. The Linksys hubs only operate
at Half-Duplex speed and they broad cast a packet to all the nodes on
the network (the Auto- sensing hubs broadcast the 10Mb packets to the
port that operate at 10Mb only and broadcast the 100Mb packets to the
ports that operate at 100Mb only. 

So you are correct.

--
Richard Urwin, Private
"No 9000 series computer has ever made a mitsake or corrubiteddatatato."


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