[plug] [OT] Anyone have an old hub spare?

[Anthony Jones]

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On Wednesday 15 May 2002 13:25, Leon Blackwell wrote:
> On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 12:08:58PM +0800, Tim Bowden wrote:
> > I have a friend here at uni who is looking for a cheap second hand hub to 
> > set up a home network.  It is going to be shared by three "poor students" 
> > while they are studying.  Even a 4 port 10mbps no-name hub is fine.
> 
> Don't forget, you can always just get cheap BNC-based cards and use that
> to throw together a network instead.  Many old cards already have BNC
> connectors (and I wish more did), and cables and Ts are fairly cheap.
> That way, you don't actually need a hub, and may end up spending less on
> setting up a small network.

Just buy an extra network card, use crossover cables and set up IP masquerade 
on the middle machine.

Anthony
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