exercise a hub

[Scot L. Harris]

On Sat, 2005-10-01 at 02:34, THUFIR HAWAT wrote:
> On 9/27/05, Mike McCarty <mike.mccarty at sbcglobal.net> 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.
> 
> Aside from pings, how else can you test a hub?
> 
> -Thufir

This may have already been suggested but most hubs by default run at
10Mb half duplex.  Did you verify using ethtool or mii-tool that your
interfaces were running at the correct speed an duplex settings?

Mute now that you have a switch.  But just a thought.