[Info-vax] hub better than switch?!

glen herrmannsfeldt gah at ugcs.caltech.edu
Sun Mar 4 08:34:44 EST 2012


Phillip Helbig---undress to reply <helbig at astro.multiclothesvax.de> wrote:
> In article <20120304083815.2b29dcd9 at walker.schlensman.homeunix.net>,
> Marc Schlensog <mschlens+news at gmail.com> writes: 

>> 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.

> Right, which is why I'm surprised that with a brand-new switch the 
> errors have returned.

>> Anyway, have you tried to manually set the interface speed to 10Mbps?

> No.  However, I don't want to.  I want it to run at 100 Mb/s.

It could be that the errors result just from running at 100Mb/s,
and that they would with any repeator or switch running at that speed.

-- glen



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