From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Dec 26 12: 8:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from haloflightleader.net (adsl-63-197-56-193.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.197.56.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2925C37B405 for ; Wed, 26 Dec 2001 12:08:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from ongppla (hogan-and-hartson-llp.Washington.cw.net [208.173.12.150]) by haloflightleader.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id fBQK8E906319; Wed, 26 Dec 2001 12:08:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@haloflightleader.net) Message-ID: <00c001c18e48$f888f800$245b1486@hhlaw.com> From: "Peter/Los Angeles, CA" To: "Wilko Bulte" , Cc: , References: <5.1.0.14.0.20011226141409.00b02048@rfnj.org> <4183.1009396491@verdi.nethelp.no> <20011226205746.A15083@freebie.xs4all.nl> Subject: Re: 4.5 PRERELEASE - Call for testing Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 12:07:32 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Can one expect two 10/100 switches to "agree" on a common duplex and speed > setting? In my experience in some cases connecting two switches will plain > not work at all. I am not an expert, but these are the switches that I use with some regularity: Cisco Catalyst 1900 Cisco Catalyst 2948 Netgear FS116 These switches speak to each other just fine. Our office has 5 different floors. Resources from the LAN room in one floor is distributed via having a single Catalyst 2948 on each floor. Each of these 2948s are connected to each other directly via TP. In the LAN Room, there is a Cisco 2500 Router, which connects us to another branch in DC. Anyway, to answer your question, switches can be daisy chained. I don't remember the rewls as far as which kind of cable to use, for instance, I believe it's a cross-over for switch to switch, and computer to switch uses straight-thru cables or was that backwards. I get this confused all the time, but I just try out two different cables, and one always works, so I never really remember which is which. Just a word of caution to those using Netgear hubs and Cisco switches; I've never successfully made these two devices communicate. The collision light on the netgear hub goes on, and never goes off when connected to the Cat. Hope this helps. Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message