Re: Overall networking issue...

david wrote:
Unless you replace all the client NICs with gigabit-capable units, and any switches or hubs with gigabit-capable units, nothing will be any different than it is today.

That's possibly true... I have more software knowledge than hardware knowledge regarding networks. And from a software point of view it should be quite simple to bridge 8 100Mbit/s network-cards into a gigabit compatible solution. Quite frankly I though this was what a switch did... In this situation there is however no IP's assigned to the 8 switch-ports connected to the established network, and if I should make a software solution for this, that might be a minor problem in the management.

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