Re: Used hardware, deliver to tonight and tomorrow's SILUG/LUCI

[Sean /The RIMBoy/ <sean@rimboy.com>]

On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Kara Pritchard wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Oct 2002 fiaid@quasi-sane.com wrote:
> 
> > > Yeah, I know, but that is what HP called them...
> > 
> > are they switches or hubs?  i am guessing hub at the price, but i dunno.
> 
> the 24 port is labelled a "switching hub". The model J3202A is the 24 
> port.  You find out ;-)  I'm treating them as "hubs" even though I suspect 
> the "switching hubs" are actually switches, they simply weren't 
> commonplace, so "switching hub" was the "marketing lingo".
> 
> I don't know... I bought them as hubs, and am selling them as such, even 
> though I know some of them are a wee bit cooler than that :-)

I suspect that they're truly hubs, but only one device is allowed to be
connected to a port, ie no hooking up hubs on the end of a port, unless
the "scrambling" is turned off.  HP had this thing where it would only
allow one MAC address to talk on a port, unless that port had the feature
disabled.  It was fun to hook two macintoshes up to a hub and that hub
uplinked to an HP... then open chooser on both and watch the fun ensue
(especially if there's a lot of devices).  We called it the dancing
chooser.  You'd get a similar but more of a head beating effect with two
windows systems hooked up in a similar fashion.

Sean...

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