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Does EN104- Hub learn which IP Adress is on which Port?
We want to use an EN104 Hub to monitor our network traffic and analyze the packages with Wireshark. We connected the hub in between two network devices and connected one laptop with the hub so that ...
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we figured out that he system works properly when we're not using DHCP given Adresses but use adresses that are fixed in all the devices that are connected to the Hub.
With that he is working correctly. If we use devices that have adresses given by DHCP it stops working as a HUB uncontrollably, sometimes it's working for an hour, sometimes more and most times less than. He's still trasmitting the data, but not to all devices like it should do.
The topic can be closed, we found a solution.
Thanks to all contributors.
Hello MorkvomOrk,
Welcome to the community!
I understand you have some questions regarding one of our older model hubs. To answer your question, this hub does NOT have any capability to remember IP addressing and does not even have a MAC address table. The hub send broadcast to all of the ports to pass the packet and basically only function on physical layer.
I hope this answer your question. If you have more inquiries, the community will be happy to help.
Thanks,
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