On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 01:53:45PM +0200, Tzahi Fadida wrote: > If the old switch was a 10mb switch then that could explain it.
It's not - it even has leds that lit when a 100Mb card is connected. The throughput changes a lot according to whether the strong machine is the server or client, BTW - the server is a 950Mhz Duron, the client 233Mhz Pentium. When sending from the client to the server, the best I got is 4MB/s, and on the other direction 8MB/s. But I don't think that's related to the switch - but rather to Linux and to the machines' hardware. > I had a client who bought a new switch recently and had the same problem. > At the end we found that the problem was with the 10/100 ethernet card on the > computer > and not the switch. It turns out it had trouble understanding what a 100mb full > duplex means since > something got messed up(old hardware and all) and it could not be set to 10mb. a > quick 30nis > replacement did the trick. It's very probable that I have the same problem, but I can't add a card, since it's a small machine with only one card slot. > So,.. its not a big problem, is it? I didn't say it was. I simply connected the old switch to it (and replaced the intended places of them). I just intended to point it out for potential buyers. -- Didi > > * - * - * > Tzahi Fadida > MSc Student > Information System Engineering Area > Faculty of Industrial Engineering & Management > Technion - Israel Institute of Technology > Technion City, Haifa, Israel 32000 > Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Technion Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * > > WARNING TO SPAMMERS: see at http://members.lycos.co.uk/my2nis/spamwarning.html > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > > Yedidyah Bar-David > > Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2003 12:10 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [OT] crossed/non-crossed cables and hubs > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > Just to add my recent experience to a long past thread. > > > > Around 2 years ago I bought an 8 port switch (primitive and unmanaged) > > of Edimax, for 300 NIS. It had (as most other small hubs/switches I > > saw) 8 normal ports, and one which was crossed (which can't be used > > together with port 1). I was quite happy with it, and the only problem > > I had with it is that when software-rebooting my ADSL modem, it did not > > get a connection until I power-cycled the switch. No big problem, as > > I only rebooted the modem for testing - never really had to do it. > > > > Well, I now decided I need another switch. I searched a bit, and found > > what seemed to be the exact same switch, for 152 NIS. I ordered it, > > got it yesterday, and instead of 1+8 ports, it has automatic MDI/MDI-X > > (that's what written on the box) - that is, it automatically detects > > if it needs to cross the port or not. For all the 8 ports. > > I connected to it some hardware, with both cross and non-cross cables, > > and all worked well, except one old PC (which does work well with the > > old switch). So - whoever shops for such equipment - you should know > > that such things exist today, are very cheap, but you should check > > that your (old?) equipment works with them. > > > > FYI. > > -- > > Didi > > > > > > ================================================================= > > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
