[rescue] LattisLink `managed hub'

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I used to laugh when a customer asked for a managed hub. WTF is there to
manage? Turn a port on/off? Look for runts/crc's/etc.? I don't think a
repeater (hub) is even able to flag a CRC or runt. I seem to recall that
with a hub garbage_in = garbage_out. I'd have to go back and read tcp 101 to
be sure. If you partition (early tech-speak for vlans) maybe you could find
it handy to remote manage it.

~ -----Original Message-----
~ From: Kris Kirby [mailto:kris at catonic.net]
~ Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2002 8:20 PM
~ To: rescue at sunhelp.org
~ Subject: [rescue] LattisLink `managed hub'
~ 
~ 
~ So I've got a Synoptics LattisLink 2800 tooling around in the 
~ basement;
~ it'll speak *basic* SNMP if I walk it through a prompt...
~ 
~ Anyone got any further information about these beasts?
~ 
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