[vcf-midatlantic] Museum network

[Systems Glitch]

> I think a hub would be nice to have as some older Ethernet interfaces do
> not play nice with switches. I keep a small eight-port hub for such things.

Same here, though often you can get around it by using a nice managed Ethernet switch -- my little Cisco 2960G (8-port gigabit) switch will talk to make 10baseT devices that dislike cheaper unmanaged switches.

I always keep at least one hub around for network sniffing. Incredibly useful for troubleshooting something that *should* be working, especially if you don't have a convenient way to mirror switchports over. I've also ran into situations where mirrored ports will like to you w.r.t. VLAN tagging. I've got a very small Netgear 4-port hub, 24 ports might be overkill :)

Thanks,
Jonathan