Re: Power System vs. The Hub

[Jack Kingsley <iseriesflorida@xxxxxxxxx>]

Rich, did you try to tweak your line description to half on duplex to see if
it would have worked.

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Rich Loeber <rich@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>   Charles,
>
>   I must admit that I thought there would be no difference between a hub
> and
>   a switch, but when I plunked down $30 for an inexpensive 5 port switch at
>   the local Radio Shack and plugged it in, then the network connection came
>   right up.  The IBM hardware guy told me that the older hub that I was
>   using was probably just not fast enough for the new ethernet card.
>
>   Rich Loeber - @richloeber
>   Kisco Information Systems
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>   SDG
>
>
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>
>   On 1/3/2011 1:52 PM, Charles Wilt wrote:
>
>  Rich,
>
>  I'm not a network guy...but that seems like a very strange requirement to
> me....
>
>  Did they give you any reason?  The only thing I can think of would be
>  that the Ethernet card is designed only for full-duplex opertaions
>  which a hub would not support and a switch would.
>
>  Otherwise, I don't know how there would be any difference from the
>  card's perspective between a switch and a hub.
>
>  Charles
>
>  On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Rich Loeber [2]<rich@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   Just installing my first Power i and I've run into a snag.  I am
>   installing a Power 6 8203-E4A but the ethernet line will not vary on.
>  IBM
>   support is recommending that I replace the hubs that run the office
>   network with switches because the ethernet card in the Power 6 is not
>   compatible with a connection to a hub.  The hub I'm using is a 10/100
> dual
>   speed Office Connect from 3 Com and has been in use here for about 10
>   years.  Our trusty old i5 520 running V5R3 gets along with it just fine.
>
>   Has anyone had any experience with getting the Power 6 to work in an all
>   hub environment?  This is pretty foreign to me.  I don't want to lay out
>   money for a new office network topology if I don't have to.
>
>   Rich Loeber
>   Kisco Information Systems
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>   SDG
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