[Info-vax] hub better than switch?!

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

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<d8fc7c70-0d91-4abe-a7a7-0326ec1ed0c1 at y10g2000vbn.googlegroups.com>,
John Wallace <johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk> writes: 

> Carrier check failures aren't a good sign, but there aren't many of
> them, and it's been a few days, and presumably you've been tinkering
> with cables or interfaces or both?

No, no tinkering!

> I've lost track of what box/interface is configured with what
> settings.

It's an XP1000 but I don't know the settings.

> I presume the above display isn't from an interface you are expecting
> to be full duplex, right?

Not sure.

If there are dumber cards on the network, presumably this one can't be 
full duplex, or can it talk full duplex to one and not to another?

> My understanding was that with full duplex properly configured, you'd
> not see things like "initially deferred" or indeed anything collision
> related because the properly configured switch with full duplex at
> both ends of a cable handles all that by magick.

Some of what we see might be from the hub.

> Zero the counters and come back in a day or so?

OK, if there's time.  I'm really busy the next couple of weeks.