Re: [NTLK] Farallon problem with switches

From: Rolf Brakvatne (rbrak29_at_qwest.net)
Date: Thu Aug 08 2002 - 10:39:16 EDT


on 8/8/02 9:32 AM, Robert Locatelli at sickofthecrap_at_mac.com wrote:

>
>> I just moved from hubs to switches in my home network.
> ...
>> It seems that the initial connection to the switch if problematic. Never
> had
>> this problem with my hubs. Suggestions?
> Maybe your ethernet card in the Newton cannot properly do the speed
> negociation. To test this you could go from Newton to the hub and then
> connect the hub to the switch. That would force the switch to 10MBps,
> assuming you got an elder hub.
> --
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>
> Marco Mailand
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>

Yes, I did try this (Newt->10baseT hub->switch->DSL modem) and it worked
just fine. Trouble is that I do not want to go through the hub all the time.

RB

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