He needs to have a chat with the sysadmin and find out if the switches and routers are the managed type, which can be configured over the ethernet cable using a Telnet program or if they're fancy ones with built in mini web servers, by using a web browser. There is where the various protocols can be enabled or disabled and some can be managed on a per-port basis to select the speed(s) each will work with.
I will have a chat with myself about it.:-)
The router can be accessed via the web, done that only once for installation. I will have another look at it. Dunno about the switch. Will have to take a look at it.
Unless your network really needs such configurability (fer instance you have many 10 megabit NICs that simply refuse to work with anything faster in a hub, switch etc) it's best to stick with an unmanaged switch that blindly passes ALL data while routing it to the requested MAC address.
Except for two older printers (one of which uses a localtalk to ethernet converter) and an older laptop all nics are 10/100. Most of the hubs are older 10 mbit because the newer 10/100 hubs caused a lot of problems. With the older 10 mbit hubs the network is stable. All computers access file server over IP and the printers over appletalk (planning to change that to IP too). All computers have access to the Internet via the router.
The 10/100 hubs have been lying unused in a box for about 2 years now. Didn't really care about them because everything worked fine when I kept on using the older hubs. I plan to set up the newer hubs after changing the printer connections from Appletalk to IP, but I will wait until the last appletalk only printer has left the building.
Marten
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