[Info-vax] hub better than switch?!

[Paul Sture]

On Sun, 04 Mar 2012 07:14:31 +0000, 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).

Is the error frequency still at about 2 per day?

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Paul Sture