[techtalk] router/switch question

[Tania M. Morell]

No, I'm sure it's a switch and not a hub.  ;)   This activity thing doesn't
happen with any of my other computers so I think it may have something to do
with the network config on this particular machine but I don't know enough
about networks/ips/broadcasts/netmasks/etc to know right off what it is. I
guess I'll have to tinker around until I figure it out.

-T

         T a n i a
www.myquadrant.net

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lee Blackwell" <lee_blackwell at eur.3com.com>
To: "Tania M. Morell" <tmorell at myquadrant.net>
Cc: <techtalk at linuxchix.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 9:11 AM
Subject: Re: [techtalk] router/switch question


> Quick and dirty test:
>
> On one of the machines that it supposed to be idle, run tcpdump.
>
> If you can see traffic from the 'live' machines (ie the ones doing the
> talking) then maybe you've got a hub rather than a switch.
>
> Otherwise I'd hazard a guess it's broadcast stuff just getting bounced
> around a lot.
>
> Does the switch/hub have any configuration options?
>
> Lee
>
> --
> Lee Blackwell
> Unix Specialist, NCS, 3com IT.
> "#include <std_disclaimer.h>"