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Where can I find an unswitched ethernet hub?
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Mar 15, 202619587 viewsConfidence Score0%
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Back when I was just getting into networking, ethernet hubs were common, and switches were a fancy, expensive alternative. Then the price of switches came down so much that hubs became pretty much obsolete, except when you actually didn't want switching - as wikipedia points out, "hubs can still be…
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If your application for a hub is "inserting a protocol analyzer into a network connection", the modern answer is a switch that features "port monitoring" or "port mirroring", in which one switch port is configured to emit all packets to and from ano…
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