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This chapter provides information on the following topics:
To ensure personal safety and to protect the hub, use the following guidelines:
| Caution Do not place anything on top of the hub that could block the air flow from the vents on top of the hub. Products designed specifically to interoperate with the hub, and that are stacked on top of the hub with the included stacking clip, will not block the air flow from the vents. |
Before you begin installing the hub, you must perform these steps:
For more information on cabling the hub to another Cisco 1528 Micro Hub 10/100, refer to Appendix B, "Cabling Guidelines."
| Type | Category | Shielding | Maximum Length |
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10BaseT | Either 3 or 5 | Shielded twisted-pair (STP) or unshielded twisted-pair (UTP) | 328 ft (100 meters) |
100BaseTX | 5 only | STP or UTP | 328 ft (100 meters) |
| Type | Category | Shielding | Maximum Length |
|---|---|---|---|
100BaseTX | 5 only | STP or UTP | 16.4 ft (5 meters) |
To install your hub, perform the following steps:
1. Stack the hub (if you are using more than one hub or other Cisco products designed to be stacked with the hub).
2. Connect the power cord.
3. Connect the network devices to the hub.
| TimeSaver If you are using only one hub, skip this section, and go to the "Connecting Power Cord" section. |
This section provides information on stacking the hub with those products, except for the Cisco 1600 series router. For information on stacking the Cisco 1600 series router, refer to the "Including Cisco 1600 Series Router in Stack" section in this chapter.
Each Cisco product designed to be stacked with the hub comes with a stacking clip and a fastener to keep multiple devices together in a stack. Assemble the clip and the fastener as shown in this figure.
After pushing the fastener into the stacking clip, follow the instructions in this figure.
| TimeSaver If you are not including a Cisco 1600 series router in your stack, skip this section, and go to the "Connecting Power Cord" section. |
To unstack devices in a stack, follow the instructions in this figure.
Follow these steps to connect the power cord.
Check the front panel to make sure that the PWR LED is on.
The following sections describe how to connect the following devices to the hub ports:
A compatible device must support either 10BaseT or 100BaseTX.
Table 2-3 lists the network devices that you can connect to the hub and summarizes how to connect each device.
You can connect any combination of 10BaseT and 100BaseTX PCs, workstations, routers, servers, and switches to the hub. However, you can connect only one 100BaseTX hub (another Cisco 1528 Micro Hub 10/100) to the hub.
| Network Device | Hub Ports Through Which You Can Make Connection | Ethernet Cable Type1 | Position of MDI/MDI-X Button (Associated With Port 8) |
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PC, workstation, router, server | 1 through 8 | Straight-through | OUT |
Switch or another Cisco 1528 Micro Hub 10/1002 | 8 | Straight-through3 | IN |
| 1Refer to Table 2-1 and Table 2-2 for Ethernet cable specifications. 2For more information on cabling the hub to another Cisco 1528 Micro Hub 10/100, refer to Appendix B, "Cabling Guidelines." 3As an alternative, you can use a crossover Ethernet cable to connect a switch or another Cisco 1528 Micro Hub 10/100. For more information, refer to the "Ethernet Cable Specifications" section in Appendix C, "Hub Specifications and Cables." |
Connect PCs, workstations, routers, or servers to the hub ports 1 through 8, as shown in the following illustration. The PCs and workstations must have a 10BaseT or 100BaseTX network interface card (NIC).
Connect the compatible switch to the hub through port 8, as shown in the following illustration.
After connecting network devices to the hub ports, check the corresponding port LEDs (labeled 1 through 8) on the front and back panels. The color and blinking pattern of the LEDs indicate the activity for the corresponding hub port.
Posted: Thu Jan 13 15:02:26 PST 2000
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