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Re: [LUG] Network hubs



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On Monday 03 Feb 2003 9:21 pm, Simon Waters wrote:
> Pete Walker wrote:
> > Neil Williams wrote:
> >
> >
> > Yes. AFAIK,  the cable from hub1 to hub2 should go into hub
>
> 2's uplink
>
> > (if it has one). Not sure what you mean by uplink button

By the side of last port on both (my Netgear) hubs is a button - X for normal, 
x for uplink. I plugged Cat5 from the first hub to the last port of the 
second hub and pressed the button. Worked fine.

> There was a report of a hospital discussed before that deployed
> Ethernet with too many hubs between end points, broke the
> spanning tree algorithmn, and caused all sorts of weird

Illuminate me Simon - just how many hubs are required for that kind of error 
and what do you mean by an end point? - a hub that doesn't link to two other 
hubs?


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