My appologies if I'm beating a dead horse here, but.... I don't see how you can use a cross-over from a normal port (i.e. non MDI port) on a hub to a NIC. This should fail. Unless maybe you are dealing with newer NICs which can sense this and change itself accordingling. So, you've cleared up the confusion on the Hub to Hub connections - straight forward for someone who has had to deal with this sort of thing. But, I'm not clear on how the rest could work (normal hub port -> cross-over cable -> NIC). What kind of cards are you using?
The HUB doesn't normally do any detection on it's regular ports - typically only on the MDI/X ports. Finally, feel free to respond off list if you don't think it's appropriate here. Shawn -----Original Message----- From: Garth Meisel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 9:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: (clug-talk) case closed So as stupid as it sounds, maybe this will make it clearer or easier to understand. I probably forgot to mention that I was feeding the UPLINK port of the hub and I think any hub can use a crossover or straight through cable for that right? Hub to hub? So, when we have two hubs that are not stackable and no uplink ports, can we link them? Yes, we use a crossover cable between the two normal ports and walllaa, we have our two hub system. Now why can a person not use the crossover cable to to the uplink port which is allowed and doesn't matter, the hub has the built in auto sensor, I think most switches do (and I'm a little freaked this cheap old thing does too) and then instead of making a normal port to a normal port which is a NIC too, run crossover cable from normal ports to NIC's? It makes perfect sense to me now. I hope you call grasp it too now. And once again, thanks for the input. I'm not sure how I get myself into these things, maybe it's a curse. One thing for sure, I'm used to it.: )
