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Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> writes: |
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> lee wrote: |
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>> Daniel Frey <djqfrey@×××××.com> writes: |
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>>> On 12/19/2016 10:15 AM, lee wrote: |
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>>>> "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@××××××××.org> writes: |
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>>>>> Similarly, the vast majority of home users have a machine with one |
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>>>>> ethernet port, and in the past it's always been eth0. |
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>>>> Since 10 years or so, the default is two ports. |
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>>> Not in any of the computers I've built. Generally only high end or |
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>>> workstation/server boards have two ports. |
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>>> i.e. not what the typical home user would buy. |
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>> It is not reasonable to assume that a "typical home user" would want a |
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>> computer with a crappy board to run Linux on it (or for anything |
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>> else). If they are that cheap, they're better off buying a used one. |
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>> When they are sufficiently clueless to want something like that, what |
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>> does it matter what the network interfaces are called. |
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> I built my current rig just a few years ago. It has one ethernet port |
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> on it. Since it didn't work right, bad drivers I guess, I added a card |
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> to have the second port. The rig I built before that, it also had one |
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> ethernet port. |
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> I might add, I didn't buy a "crappy board" either. The first was Abit |
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> which was the top rated brand at the time and my current board is |
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> Gigabyte, another highly rated board at the time I bought it. |
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I have no experience with Abit, and I can tell you from experience with |
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a couple of them that Gigabyte is the worst junk for a board you can |
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buy and that their support has no idea what they are doing. |
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> As Daniel |
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> points out, you have to get into some pretty high end boards before you |
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> get two ethernet ports. |
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> Just for giggles, I went and looked at Asus boards, currently highly |
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> rated. I had to get up around the $400 range to find two ports. Most |
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> computers built for home use, and even some, maybe most, business |
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> computers, only have one port. It's all they need. |
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> I might also add, I have a lot of friends that give me their old |
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> computers. Of all the puters I have ever seen, they had one ethernet |
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> port. Over the past decade or so, I've likely stripped out a few dozen |
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> computers for parts. Not one of them had two ethernet ports. |
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> I'm with Daniel on this one. |
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The last time I got a board that didn't have two ports is about 20 years |
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ago, and I never bought one for 400. They all just have 2, needed or |
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not, even cheap ones. |
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