[plug] Experience with 10/100 Dual Speed Hubs

[Dave T Burbidge]

Brad (and anybody else reading this :)

It will work, I've done it ... but....

Can I suggest getting a second net card for the server, and make your dual
speed hub a switch (if you have multiple servers or a router) and setting up
some nifty virtual networks...

Of course, if you have just the one server that does everything, just tie
the 100 hub into the 100 card on the server, and the old 10 hub into the 10
card on the server, and this will split things nicely (might be an idea to
enable IP forwarding :)

Also, I have had problems with straight 10/100 hubs - they have two circuits
& therefore two networks - one at 10, one at 100 - this may alleviate the
need for a switch, but will still require two feeds from the server - one at
each speed ... I found out this one the hard way...

Leaving just the one card in the server will not work, it'll initialise to
one speed and ignore the other...

Sorry, can't help with dosemu...

Dave Burbidge
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Brad Campbell wrote:

> G'day all,
> I'm after some advice.
> After some spectacular failures with my little dosemu project (Hi Garth!
> :p) )
> I have decided to simply brute force a solution with 100BaseT networks
> instead.
> I have a system with 24 ports at the moment, and I want to upgrade 3 or
> 4 of them
> to 100baseT.
> The card in the sever is an EEPRO 10/100.
> What I'm thinking of doing is grabbing a dual speed hub, hanging that
> straight
> off the server, and hanging the 100BaseT runs off that, then plugging
> the
> existing 10BaseT hubs into one of the Dual speed ports..
> Thus only having to upgrade the machines I need to upgrade..
>
> Will Work/Won't Work/You Cheap Bastard
> Comments ?
>
> As an aside, the main failing of my dosemu attempt is some strange
> incompatibility with the software, particular to chaining to other
> files from within the database. I'll keep working on it.
> In regard to the suggestions of using microsoft networking to lock the
> filesystems, it seems this is now possible as you can have each dosemu
> session have it's own emulated network adaptor. Provided you get the
> routing table set up right, it looks like you could do it.
> Something else to play with anyway.
>
> In response to your question John, regarding running it under OS/2,
> I'm not sure if it will run, it uses the 4gl dos extender in dmpi mode.
> I am looking at other solutions at the moment, but will keep that in
> mind if all else fails.
>
> Thanks for your advice everyone..
>
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