[Info-vax] hub better than switch?!

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

A while back, I posted a question about a slowly (about 2 per day)
increasing error count, mostly on PEA0: but occasionally on some disks
connected to the same machine which shows the errors on PEA0:.  This 
stopped after my old switch died and I replaced it with a hub (actually 
this strange 10/100 Mb/s hybrid thingamajig).  I assumed that whatever 
caused the switch to fail was also responsible for these errors before 
the failure.

Since I replaced this "hub" with a brand new 10/100/1000 MB/s proper 
switch a few days ago, the increasing error count is back.  :-(  It 
occurs on the one machine in the cluster which has a 100 MB/s ethernet 
card (the others have 10).  On the switch, this is running at 100 while 
on the "hub" it ran at 10 (but other things on the hub---an access point 
and another switch---ran at 100).