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- From: dweissman@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (WiseGuy)
- Subject: SMC vs. Asante 10BaseT
- Message-ID: <19NOV199209152954@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 13:15:00 GMT
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- We have been using simple SMC 10BaseT concentrators to link Novell client
- workgroups to a thick ethernet backbone. The simple/cheap 8-port
- SMC concentrators seem to work fine. We recently purchased an Asante 10T
- 12 port concentrator to swap with an existing SMC and found that the clients
- couldn't reach the Novell 3.11 server! I checked to make sure that SQE
- was turned off on the thicknet transceiver (it was off) and took a look at
- the Asante concentrator. Every transmit from the client also caused the
- collision indicator to comeone. Since the SMC had no other lights other
- than LINK, I couldn't tell what was going on. FYI: The ethernet cards were
- SMC3016TP.
-
- If standards are followed, shouldn't the Asante concentrator work if the
- SMC one works?
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