Conference netcad::hub_mgnt

1932.0. "Sales doc comment" by JHBWS1::RYAN (Ryan Price, 756-4336) Wed Jan 25 1995 18:12

I don't know if this is the right place, but I can't find any other hub-related
conference.

I just had an interesting experience.

I ordered and received a DEChub 900, with a DECconcentrator 900MX and a
DECrepeater 900TM, with the intention of using my VAX's FDDI port as the primary
channel for communication with my network, which I plan to distribute over the
900's different channels. (I have a few hub 90's which are connected via
fibre-optic repeaters).

In hindsight, it's obvious, but at the time it wasn't. I only realised after
hubwatch showed me my backplane config (I'd never seen it before trying to
configure my hub), that my FDDI concentrator couldn't talk to my Ethernet
repeater without something to bridge the 2 different types of backplane channels.

I'd like to suggest that the page in the catalogue which contains the bridge
(DECswitch 900EF) and concentrator have a little on-line 'reminder' that for the
DECconcentrator 900MX to talk to a DECrepeater 900TM in the same hub, you still
need a bridge (Read DECswitch 900EF), that the DEChub 900 multiswitch doesn't
actually do the switching, but only provides the channel. I'm sure I'm not the
first, and won't be the last to make this mistake ?

Otherwise, I'm quite impressed with my hub and hubwatch.

\Ryan

    I too was bit by this on a customer's project.  Had to "eat" the
    oversight.