At 12:00 PM -0700 9/18/98, Chris Cappuccio wrote:
On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Barry L James wrote:
On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Chris Cappuccio wrote:
Most 10/100M cards have FDX for both 10 and 100Mbps operation. Cisco catalyst hubs support 10Mbps FDX. Intel EtherExpress PCI cards do 10M FDX... BayNetworks hubs also..
I thought the catalyst line were switches only. Can hubs support full-duplex? I didn't think they could for some reason.
I dunno if Cisco calls the 1900 and 2900's switches, but as far as I can tell they don't do anything more then my 10/100 Bay networks hubs!!
Smart, very manageable hubs.. The 10Mbps ports on the 1900 and Bay networks 301 don't do FDX, but the 100Mbps on the 2900 and Bay networks 350/350T do 10M/FDX..
1900's and 2900's are switches, but don't read too much into the term "hub." Cisco (and Bay for that matter) can be strange in its naming. A bit of trivia. If you look on the copyright page of IOS 9.1 documentation, you will find Cisco trademarked the term "trouter." This was going to be a term for a terminal server/router, until market research suggested it didn't scale well, and customers were not lured to it because it sounded fishy. But progress continued. In the pocket-sized internetworking glossary, they do mention two of the trademarks they registered while exploring the pre-Bay joint venture with Synoptics, which would have joined "router" and "hub" technologies. What were they going to call this? The "Rub" and the "Rubsystem." Someone seems to have avoided yet another changing of foot in mouth. There are 2500 series routers with a small built-in hub. Officially, these are "hublets." I had a student musing "hub? router? why didn't they call them hooters?"