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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!src.honeywell.com!recnews-2.4 From: englehar@src.honeywell.com (Matt Englehart) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: subnet with two hosts Date: 9 Jun 1995 20:15:22 -0500 Organization: mailEnteringNews @ Honeywell Technology Center Lines: 8 Sender: daemon@src.honeywell.com Message-ID: <9506100115.AA02316@akela.src.honeywell.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: moon.src.honeywell.com X-Received: from akela.src.honeywell.com by src.honeywell.com (4.1/smail2.6.3/SRCv0.25); Fri, 9 Jun 95 20:15:17 CDT id AA27916 for comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc at Posted-Date: Fri, 9 Jun 95 20:15:16 CDT Received-Date: Fri, 9 Jun 95 20:15:17 CDT X-Received: by akela.src.honeywell.com (4.1/SMI-3.2) id AA02316; Fri, 9 Jun 95 20:15:16 CDT X-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc If I want to create a subnet with 2 hosts: a sparc10 running SunOS and 486 running FreeBSD, and I buy a 10BaseT ethernet card for the PC, can I get away with a passive hub between the two? Does anyone have experience with passive hubs? I've even see 4-port hubs for $15. What's the catch? Thanks, Matt