Re: [OT] crossed/non-crossed cables and hubs

2003-08-24 Thread Erez Doron
hi we have designed a board that amnog other things included such an 8 port switch. the good news is that the 'feature' can be disabled. the bad news, is that you need either make a physical change on the board, or if you are lucky and have a serial port on it, it is possible to configure throug

Re: [OT] crossed/non-crossed cables and hubs

2003-08-24 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
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 - t

RE: [OT] crossed/non-crossed cables and hubs

2003-08-23 Thread Tzahi Fadida
If the old switch was a 10mb switch then that could explain it. 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