Okay, well, I have definitely had both 10 and 100 on
my network working on the same time. However, my
situation may be a bit different.
I have a 10/100 switch which I expect can handle this
situation better. I then occasionally attach a 10 hub
through the uplink. I never expect anything more than
10 from the hub sense that is all it can handle. And
my switch handles both speeds with no problems.
Both are Linksys. Hope that helps.
Maybe hubs can't handle the different speeds, but my
switch does.
--- David Rankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Todd Flinders wrote:
>
> >
> > Now, I do not think that the problem is with
> 10/100
> > variances. I have had both 10 and 100 devices on
> my
> > network and there was not a problem. However,
> your
> > hub/switch/router will have to be 10/100.
> Otherwise,
> > their could be grief. But since the rest of your
> > network is working fine, I doubt this is the case.
> >
>
> << MY SOAP BOX >>
>
> Hmm... Now I'm not so sure about this one. In the
> Windows world, I have
> had problems with networked machines on the same
> segment wanting to run
> at 10 (if one machine on the lan is only capable of
> 10) or 100 if you
> have all 100 mip capable cards and UTC CAT 5. The
> problem being this:
> Let's say you have a Linux server and 14 WinXX
> clients with PCI 10/100
> NICs, a CAT 5 UTP backbone, a 16 port 10/100 hub (or
> whatever tying them
> together), and 1 WinXX client with an ISA 10 Mip
> NIC. Based upon my
> experience, if you want all machines to talk, you
> have 3 options:
>
> (1) Set all 14 PCI WinXX machines and the Linux box
> to run at 10 mips
> (via the drivers); or
> (2) Find a 10/100 ISA NIC (3Com 515TX -- Costs more
> that the ISA machine
> is worth); or
> (3) Get rid of the machine that doesn't support a
> 10/100 NIC and replace
> it with one that does. (I don't care if it's nothing
> more than a 233 Mhz
> P2 with an open PCI slot for a 10/100 NIC)
>
> I'm no expert, and I can't give you a dissertation
> about the finer
> points of 10/100 "auto-sensing" compatibility, but I
> can tell you that
> if you have more than 1 WinXX box with shared
> resources on a lan
> segment, and, it's not all 10 or 100, you are going
> to have to reach the
> lowest common denominator (i.e. 10 mips) to make the
> windows boxes play
> nicely together.
>
> If someone else can enlighten me on how to have an
> "auto-sensing" hub
> handle both 10 and 100 Mips WinXX machines on the
> same lan segment, I am
> all ears. When I was running WinXX peer-to-peer, I
> had both Dell and
> Linksys on the phone trying to figure out why my
> machines would not talk
> to each other. The answer was simply, on the same
> lan segment, it's
> either 10 or 100, not both. Auto-sensing is a great
> thing, "the dumb hub
> can figure out if its going to talk at 10 or 100 all
> by itself!" (They
> just don't tell you it can't talk and listen at 10
> and 100 at the same
> time ;-)
>
> My solution was to scrap the old ISA machine (the
> secretary's - of
> course) and replace it with one that would support
> 100TX. Crank all
> machines up to 100 Mips. And now, my Linux/Samba,
> Win95, Win98, WinME
> Lan absolutely screams. If I try and copy my
> accounting data file
> (small, but ~ 7 meg) from a WinXX machine to Linux
> or vice-versa while
> in Windows, the Copy dialog doesn't even have time
> to appear. (copy time
> ~1 second)
>
> Further Affiant Sayeth Not.....
>
> >
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>
>
> --
> David Rankin
> Nacogdoches, Texas
>
>
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