Re: Compatible Switched

From: Russ Kaufmann [MCT] (russ_at_nospam.exchangemct.com)
Date: 09/21/04

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    "steve" <steve@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
    news:F1D27B3C-0210-4EFF-81F2-D2AE5C95A397@microsoft.com...
    > I recently installed NLB and came across the following problem: I am using
    is
    > a Linksys 2024 Gigabyte swtich which seems to remember which port is
    > associated with a particular MAC address, as a result when I brought a
    second
    > host into the cluster the first host would no longer respond to the
    cluster.
    >
    > I have rectified this by placing a dedicated hub between the switch and
    the
    > cluster and evertything works fine. The dedicated hub is a pre-historic
    > 10mbps creature that needs to be replaced. My problem is that I want to
    make
    > sure before buying a replacement that it will not suffer the same problems
    as
    > the Linksys switch.
    >
    > Is there a list of switches/hubs which are known to be OK, or is there a
    > name to the "feature" of the Linksys switch which I can avoid buying next
    > time ?

    Any hub is fine. I don't ever see a hub being overwhelmed with heartbeat
    traffic, and hubs don't fail (except the odd power supply) like higher end
    switches that lose their NVRAM in lightning storms (or many other ways
    including stupid network admins).

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