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From: alen.zakary on 4 Mar 2006 13:37
Hi guys,

I have a question in regards to CAT5 cabling vs CAT6 cabling. I have a
high-end production printer XEROX DC 470ST. I am thinking of setting up
a gigabit network with a Fedora Core print server, my concern is that
the NIC in the printer is a 10/100.

Will I have any problems if I switch to a gigabit network, even though
the NIC in the printer is a 10/100. Does anyone have any advice for me,
before I venture on this mission?

Thanks in advance.

Alen.

From: alen.zakary on 4 Mar 2006 13:40
Oh yeah one more thing, what is the best Distro which has the most
support for high end printers. Any suggestions?

Alen.

From: Moe Trin on 4 Mar 2006 16:35
On 4 Mar 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.networking, in article
<1141497465.479978.136450(a)z34g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>, alen.zakary(a)gmail.com
wrote:

>I have a question in regards to CAT5 cabling vs CAT6 cabling. I have a
>high-end production printer XEROX DC 470ST. I am thinking of setting up
>a gigabit network with a Fedora Core print server, my concern is that
>the NIC in the printer is a 10/100.

Yeah, but that has nothing to do with CAT5/6.

>Will I have any problems if I switch to a gigabit network, even though
>the NIC in the printer is a 10/100. Does anyone have any advice for me,
>before I venture on this mission?

Use a multi-speed switch. That portion of the LAN that is running at gigabit
speed will do so, and the port connecting to the printer will run at 10 or
100 Megabit.

Old guy
From: Antoine EMERIT on 5 Mar 2006 05:47
alen.zakary(a)gmail.com ?crivait news:1141497606.977282.147300
@z34g2000cwc.googlegroups.com:

> Oh yeah one more thing, what is the best Distro which has the most
> support for high end printers. Any suggestions?

No specific distro.

Have a look at the CUPS software.

Regards
From: CJT on 5 Mar 2006 14:07
Moe Trin wrote:

> On 4 Mar 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.networking, in article
> <1141497465.479978.136450(a)z34g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>, alen.zakary(a)gmail.com
> wrote:
>
>
>>I have a question in regards to CAT5 cabling vs CAT6 cabling. I have a
>>high-end production printer XEROX DC 470ST. I am thinking of setting up
>>a gigabit network with a Fedora Core print server, my concern is that
>>the NIC in the printer is a 10/100.
>
>
> Yeah, but that has nothing to do with CAT5/6.
>
>
>>Will I have any problems if I switch to a gigabit network, even though
>>the NIC in the printer is a 10/100. Does anyone have any advice for me,
>>before I venture on this mission?
>
>
> Use a multi-speed switch.

FWIW, I've never seen a gigabit switch that wouldn't also work just fine
at 10/100, so that can be reduced to "Use a (gigabit) switch."

That portion of the LAN that is running at gigabit
> speed will do so, and the port connecting to the printer will run at 10 or
> 100 Megabit.
>
> Old guy


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