Re: Power System vs. The Hub

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
[1]http://www.kisco.com
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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
[1][3]http://www.kisco.com
SDG

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