Asante Technologies 1012 - Manual (Page 15)

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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:
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.
Introducing
the
AsantéBridge
Internal
Bridge
ASANTE
RESET
PWR CPU
SNMP MSG
UTILIZATION
%
PARTITION
LINK/RECEIVE
BRDG 1
1
10BASE-T PORTS
AsantéHub 1012
1 3 5 10 20 30 50 65+ UPLINK 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
COLLISION
% 1 3 5 10+ Late Collision
Misaligned CRC
Runts/Fragments
Short Event/Missing SFD
0000944007B3
AsantéHub 1012
Network Segment A
Transparent bridge
contained within the
AsantéHub chassis
Internal connection between
the hub and the bridge hub port
Network Segment B
Connection between hub
3in1 Port on the back panel
and Network Segment A
Connection between the bridge
external port AUI connector
and Network Segment B
RJ45 10BaseT link to network
device on Network Segment A