[Sunhelp] Problems with Sun3 and Ethernet network

[james at univox.univox.com]

Tim Matthews wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Alan Rubin wrote:
> > i'll take a little stab at it.  is that a smart hub?  you might need a
> > crossover cable.
> 
> Thanks for you idea, but the hub is a plain Netgear EN108TP. Everything
> else is plugged in using straigt wired 4 pair.
> 
> The transciever was used on an old SS2 and the HP with the same standard
> cables.
> 

	I've seen similar situations on at least 2 different networks that had
ordinary "dumb" hubs.  The network configurations were very simple and
standard.  In both cases, I never got the suns to work with those hubs. 
I ended up uplinking with another hub that the sun liked.  All the other
boxes (newer suns, NT, Mac, etc.) worked fine.  The machines in question
were Sparc 10's and Ultra1's.  The Ultra2's did not have any problems.

For what it's worth,
James Roth