Re: Is it really a HUB?

[Jason Haar <Jason.Haar () trimble co nz>]

On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 06:00:41PM -0700, Craig Paterson wrote:
> I ran into exactly the same problem with cheap Linksys hubs which turned 
> out to behave as switches. I can't speak for that particular 3Com, but 
> I'm using a four-port Officeconnect as an IDS hub, and it works great.

Ensure they are not in fact "10/100 hubs". If so, they are actually made up
of a 100M hub + a 10M hub joined via a 2-port switch. The outcome of which
is that if you have (say) 3 100M Ethernet devices plugged into it, and 1 10M
device, then the 3 100M devices can "see" each others traffic (like a hub
allows) - but they cannot see the 10M traffic.

i.e. check you Ethernet device settings and ensure they are identical - same
speed and same duplex. Then see if it starts acting like a hub.

-- 
Cheers

Jason Haar
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