Re: Power System vs. The Hub

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

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 <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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