OFF TOPIC - LINUX NETWORKING

[Gregory Nowak]

Ok, you've got a point there.
Greg


On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 01:02:48PM -0500, Kirk Wood wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> > Why?
> > I have 4 machines here, and they all go over the same cross over cable
> > which gets switched from machine to machine as it's needed.
> > Two of the boxes run slackware, and they connect
> > with themselves as well as their windows
> > counterparts just fine.
> > Besides, if the windows boxes connect to the linux boxes just
> > fine over the cross over cable,
> > then I really don't see how a hub would help.
> 
> Well lets start with the fact that some network cards don't work properly
> using a cross over cable. Then follow by the fact that no vendor I know of
> will support a machine using a cross over cable.
> 
> I would also add that this eliminates the "oops, the cable is between the
> wrong two boxes" errors. It also answers more of how the network is
> setup. Right now, we don't know that he doesn't have two network cards in
> one or more machines with one being expected to act as a router. This may
> work, but is less then optimal and much more difficult to troubleshoot. It
> is much easier to deal with problems when the problem is simplified.
> 
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> Kirk Wood
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> 
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