I have a linksys 10/100 hub , 3 linksys 100 mb cards and two 10 mb card. The 100 mb talk to each other at 100 , while any one talking to the 10 mg ones are throghtled back down to 10 mb. The lights on the hub and back of the 100 mb cards are running at 100 , while the 10 are running at 10 mbts. At 09:40 PM 3/28/2000 +0100, david@bottrill.co.uk wrote:
Hi Alexander
You can't mix 10/100 and 10meg cards on the same network, without causing all the 10/100 card to slow down to 10. This assumes that you have a hub that is autosensing. Moyst autosensing hubs have seperate internal busses running at 10 and 100Mhz. The net effect is that all the 10Mhz devices can talk together likewise the 100Mhz device. However the 10 and 100Mhz devices will not see each other.
There are two ways around the problem:
1) Buy a small switching hub, in the UK these cost approx. 150 UK Pounds, I guess around $250. This will switch packets between the 10Mhz and 100Mhz devices.
2) The second is to install a second NIC (10Mhz)in one of your boxes and enable IP routing between the two network nics, and a 10Mhz NIC in your 486.
David
-----Original Message----- From: Alexander Daniloff [mailto:alex@daniloff.com] Sent: 27 March 2000 14:02 To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Cc: plug@northwest.com Subject: [SLE] 10 Mbit ISA NIC and 100Mbit network ?
Hello Linux folks! I need to connect my junky 486-DX2 PC to my 100Mbit network. Unfortunatelly I couldn't find ISA 10/100 NIC. Looks like they don't exist. I can't use 10/100 PCI NIC since 486-DX2 motherboard doesn't have PCI slots. On my network I use 10/100 Hub and all other computers have 10/100 Mbit PCI NICs as well. If I install ISA 10 Mbit network card in this old junk PC will it slow down my whole network?
Thanks for any suggestions and your time, Alex
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