Several people here gave you advice on how it should be done. You're welcome to stray from that.
But understand, within 5 minutes of your post, you received several responses from people who assumed you had a problem, and wanted to help. I don't think it's an exaggeration to say you successfully pissed them all off. My memory is pretty bad. I'll forget this whole thing by tomorrow. I don't want to be a part of a discussion about whether doing something wrong will still allow it to work. I do enough wrong on my own due to ignorance or stupidity. I don't need to plan to do things wrong just for kicks. You can probably do what you're talking about. You can also carry a CAT5 signal across a barbed wire fence at 100 Meg (It was done once to prove a point). I'll never do either in my network, and helping you do something equally stupid doesn't interest me. You wasted several people's time today, and generally made them frustrated BECAUSE they tried to help. They're now less likely to help in the future. That screws things up for me, and you, and everyone else, and generally devalues this group overall. Unpaid support is a thankless job. Don't make it worse by turning it into a waste of the person's time as well. Kev. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Garth Meisel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 9:11 AM 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.: ) > > >
