[Info-vax] strange LAT problem

[Simon Clubley]

On 2018-12-02, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
> In article <pu0igt$54o$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist
><bqt at softjar.se> writes: 
>
>> On 2018-11-28 21:52, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>> > In article <ptls10$hsa$2 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist
>> > <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
>> > 
>> >> Any WiFi in this picture?
>> > 
>> > No.  There is WiFi on the same LAN, but nothing to do with VMS.
>> 
>> Meaning you use LAT between VMS hosts, and all the VMS hosts are sitting 
>> on the same ethernet segment with nothing else in between?
>
> Right; just a switch.
>

What _kind_ of a switch ?

Is it really a dumb switch (and _only_ a dumb switch) or does it
have "intelligence" built into it ?

Simon.

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