Re: tlug: sendmail / connecting Linux box and a Mac

[Jonathan Q <jq@example.com>]

Darren Cook (darren@example.com) wrote:

> Which reminds me: I thought I could connect from the router (NTT's MM-128;
> I'd filled all three sockets) to the uplink socket on the hub, but it
> didn't work (with either kind of cable), so I just used socket 1. Should it
> have worked or is uplink there for some other purpose?

The uplink socket is for cascading hubs, but most hubs have a switch to 
set it to function as a normal socket or cascade.  I would only use it
as a normal socket if 1) I had no others left, and 2) I was a million
percent sure I would never cascade that hub.  And even then I'd probably
find myself cascading it some day  :-)

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