I just ran into a completely unexpected problem. It appears that the Kingston SOHO Hubs don't do TCP. They do NETBEUI very well. After 4 hours of troubleshooting I went home and got my cheap Bay Networks 8 port hub and everything worked. This is to hopefully prevent others from running into the same problem. Nothing on Kingstons site mentions no TCP support but swapping only the hub worked perfectly. If anyone has more insight or other hubs that don't work please let me know. Thanks, Jon Griffin jong@e88.org Check out: <http://www.salsablanca.com> <http://www.jongriffin.com>
I would bet you had another problem or a bad hub. Point is, this is a hub. What you descibe in your note would be a layer 3 switch (aka bridge). I see absolutely nothing on their site that describes any layer 3 functionality (or even layer 2) that is built into this hub. A good indicator would be price. I know of no devices that perform L3 tasks that are priced below $1000 (roughly). What does the SOHO go for? Is it possible something was set at, for example, 10/HDX when it should have been 100/FDX? Could you possibly have been using the mdix (crossover) port when you tested IP and switched the cable to a straight through port when you tried 'beui? Jon Griffin wrote:> > I just ran into a completely unexpected problem. > > It appears that the Kingston SOHO Hubs don't do TCP. They do NETBEUI very > well. After 4 hours of troubleshooting I went home and got my cheap Bay > Networks 8 port hub and everything worked. > > This is to hopefully prevent others from running into the same problem. > Nothing on Kingstons site mentions no TCP support but swapping only the hub > worked perfectly. If anyone has more insight or other hubs that don't work > please let me know. > > Thanks, > Jon Griffin > jong@e88.org > > Check out: > <http://www.salsablanca.com> > <http://www.jongriffin.com>-- John J. LeMay Jr. NJMC, LLC. http://www.njmc.com
At 10:48 PM 9/8/99 -0400, John LeMay wrote:>I would bet you had another problem or a bad hub. Point is, this is a >hub. What you descibe in your note would be a layer 3 switch (aka >bridge). I see absolutely nothing on their site that describes any layer >3 functionality (or even layer 2) that is built into this hub. A good >indicator would be price. I know of no devices that perform L3 tasks >that are priced below $1000 (roughly). What does the SOHO go for? > >Is it possible something was set at, for example, 10/HDX when it should >have been 100/FDX? Could you possibly have been using the mdix >(crossover) port when you tested IP and switched the cable to a straight >through port when you tried 'beui?I didn't suspect the hub either. But, it works fine with all the win95 machines pinging each other. There are no switches other than port 8, which I wasn't using. I am sure this sells for about $100US and I am still stumped. I didn't buy any of this equipment. I only came in to add a Linux server and a seperate box for a Firewall. Using the same cables and only switching to my cheapy netgear everything works 100%. It has to be something with the hub, what I don't have a clue. The software is the same and the cabling is the same. Only the hub changed. I may try to do some more research on it later, but for now I am stumped. Thanks for the reply Thanks, Jon Griffin jong@e88.org Check out: <http://www.salsablanca.com> <http://www.jongriffin.com>