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Conference netcad::hub_mgnt

Title:DEChub/HUBwatch/PROBEwatch CONFERENCE
Notice:Firmware -2, Doc -3, Power -4, HW kits -5, firm load -6&7
Moderator:NETCAD::COLELLADT
Created:Wed Nov 13 1991
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:4455
Total number of notes:16761

1814.0. "Hubwatch via DECswitch 900EF TP port ?" by FOUNDR::DODIER (Single Income, Clan'o Kids) Thu Dec 22 1994 12:48

    	I have a PC with Hubwatch 3.1 installed on it. Is it possible to
    connect the PC to a twisted pair on a DECswitch 900EF installed in
    a DEChub 900 to get hubwatch access ? 
    
    	I did notice that there is no default LAN connection made when the 
    DECswitch module is installed in the hub. I had to gain HUBwatch access to 
    the hub via a DECrepeater 900TS. Once in, I can configure one of the 
    DECswitch's bridge ports to the Thinwire LAN, but it still doesn't allow 
    me hubwatch access from the PC via a twisted pair port on the DECswitch.
    
    	FWIW - I can ping the DECswitch's IP address once I connected one
    it's bridge ports to the default thinwire LAN.
    
    	Also, is there something special I have to do to define the icon
    for the DECswitch 900EF when looking at the LAN interconnect view ? If
    I select the DECswitch under the LAN view and then select configure, it
    knows that the module is a DECswitch 900EF ? It just doesn't show any
    icon for it.
    
    
    	Any help appreciated.......Ray
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1814.1Problem may be a known....NETCAD::BATTERSBYThu Dec 22 1994 13:5410
    >   Also, is there something special I have to do to define the icon
    >for the DECswitch 900EF when looking at the LAN interconnect view ? If
    >I select the DECswitch under the LAN view and then select configure, it
    >knows that the module is a DECswitch 900EF ? It just doesn't show any
    >icon for it.
    
    Check notes 1728.10, and 1728.14, you may be experiencing the same
    thing mentioned there.
    
    Bob
1814.2One down...SALEM::HARRIS_MThu Dec 22 1994 15:589
    re:-1
    
    	Thanks. That looks like the same thing I'm seeing. My big problem
    now is whether I can get hubwatch to see the hub via a twisted pair
    port on the DECswitch. This is on a customer order where hubwatch was
    specified as coming into the DECswitch and the only other modules in
    the hub are DECconcentrator 900MX's.
    
    	Ray
1814.3Use a FLIP cable.MSDOA::REEDJohn Reed @CBO, (803) 781-9571 NIS NetworkerThu Dec 22 1994 18:5511
    I would ensure that you are using a FLip Cable.   If your 10BaseT cable
    works in a repeater module, then it will NOT WORK in the bridge module. 
    The bridge has a "NODE" connector, not a "repeater connector (which
    includes the flip, and is marked with X)"
    
    Using the BN24F-xx cable, I can connect my 425sl Laptop to a
    DECbridge900mx module, and manage the hub using HUBwatch v3.1.  You
    should be able to do the same thing.
    
    JR