Re: Pipeline Production Problems

[Peter Mount <peter@retep.org.uk>]

On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Robert Creager wrote:

> I suspect one of them is really a hub then, not a switch.  I can try a slightly
> different test tonight.  I've three computers on one switch, and then the one
> out-lier.  This will test the speed of the switch with two different transfers
> going on between three ports.

One thing I was taught a few years ago by a Cisco engineer is that for
most switches if you connect a hub to that switch, the switch simply
starts acting as a hub.

Also (but not on the cheap ones), some switches do allow you to use more
than one port when connecting two switches to give you double the
bandwidth between the two (I had to do this on some Cisco switches about 3
years ago before installing fibre between them).

Peter

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