RE: What's different about a router uplink port ?

["Ian Lowe" <ianlowe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think I know why it's marked that way...

Remember the problems with trying to train staff to use the computer
initially? Hands up how many people had to augment keyboards with the word
"Any" written on the space bar in permanent pen in order to help
the users?

They could quite easily not mark the port - as you say, it's got auto
crossover, so the uplink port probably isn't any different, but that runs
the risk of someone purchasing another brand because "this one doesn't
have
an upilnk port..."

Ian.


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From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Kevin Hawkins
Sent: 01 September 2006 19:41
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] What's different about a router uplink port ?



I'm guessing by the silence that it perhaps wasn't such a stupid question.

The ports are all 10/100/1000 on this switch . Maybe it's just because
the uplink ports always used to be faster and so they kept the name
'uplink' to avoid people asking where they went when all ports became
the same speed :-) I suppose there could be some routing efficiency or
extra MAC address handling capacity on some ports or maybe the
statistics info on managed switches works better to show the 'onward'
link saturation when it knows which ports are used for uplinks.

Kevin

David Yeend wrote:
>
> Answers on a postcard.......
>
> My go:
> Is it (are they) gig port(s) while all the others are 10/100 and
> therefore the manufacturer is suggesting that it (they) would
typically be
> used for uplink purposes?
>
> Do you have a model number?
>
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