Re: Power System vs. The Hub

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
  [1]http://www.kisco.com
  SDG

References

  Visible links
  1. http://www.kisco.com/
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