Asante Technologies 1012 manual Introducing AsantéBridge, Introducing the AsantéBridge

Introducing

the

AsantéBridge

Introducing the AsantéBridge

The AsantéBridge 1012 is an AsantéHub 1012 that has a transpar- ent two port bridge contained in the same chassis.

Logically, the AsantéBridge looks like this:

Network Segment B

Connection between the bridge external port AUI connector and Network Segment B

Internal

Bridge

Transparent bridge contained within the AsantéHub chassis

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AsantéHub 1012

		UTILIZATION									PARTITION
			%
PWR CPU	1 3 5		10 20			30	50	65+	BRDG UPLINK 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
SNMP MSG	Late Collision			1		3	5	10+
	Misaligned CRC					%				LINK/RECEIVE
	Short Event/Missing SFD				COLLISION
	Runts/Fragments

RJ45 10BaseT link to network device on Network Segment A

Internal connection between the hub and the bridge hub port

10BASE-T PORTS

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AsantéHub 1012

Connection between hub 3in1 Port on the back panel

Network Segment A

and Network Segment A

Figure 1-1 The AsantéBridge 1012

The bridge provides connections between two network seg- ments: One segment is the 1012 hub itself, to which you can con- nect other hubs, another backbone, or other network devices. The second segment is connected via an AUI connector on the back of the AsantéBridge 1012 unit.

This gives you the AsantéHub 1012 as the connection point for segment A (connected internally to the bridge hub port) and a second AUI connector (the bridge external port) for segment B, enabling you to connect a variety of different Ethernet devices.

Figure 1-2 shows a simple two segment network.

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