On Sat, 2005-10-01 at 07:34 +0100, THUFIR HAWAT wrote: > On 9/27/05, Mike McCarty <mike.mccarty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > ... > > > The problem is that I don't really know what the problem, the hub > > > itself might be fine. It's guesswork and trial and error. > ... > > In that case, build/purchase a crossover cable. Then you'll *know* > ... > > Well, I went out and bought a switch, fifteen canadian dollars, and > plugged the Asus WL-330g adapter into the switch, reset and configured > the adapter, and everthing works fine now. > > So, unless my "experiment" is flawed, the problem was definitely the > old hub. I'm curious, however, as to why the old hub failed. > According to the manual a hub should work fine. They work fine until they - well - until they fail. > > Aside from pings, how else can you test a hub? > The cheap hubs are not worth trying to do anything with. If a port fails it often gives no indication except loss of connectivity (sonetimes a loss of link light, and sometimes not). AFAIK the cheaper ones are not manageable, and do nothing intelligent but autosense connections and perform switching. When they fail, they are toast. If you want the ability to manage a switch they are often several hundred $ in cost. > -Thufir >
