[Info-vax] hub better than switch?!

[Marc Schlensog]

On Sun, 4 Mar 2012 07:14:31 +0000 (UTC)
helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply)
wrote:

> 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).
> 

A switch is superior to a hub - unless you need to be able to see all
traffic from all connected machines on all connected machines.
Anyway, have you tried to manually set the interface speed to 10Mbps?

Marc