making a ring of ethernet hubs

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	Question by Faisal Gillani posted 22 Jun 2003
	making a ring of ethernet hubs
Well i have a setup of 3 hubs hub 1 is on the first floor of the building hub 2 is on the 2nd floor of the building hub 3 is on the 3rd floor of the building hub 1 is connected with hub 2 & hub to has a wire going to hub 3 .. now i am taking one wire from hub 1 to hub 3 i want to ask that if the link between hub 1 & 2 breaks will the network still be up ? if not will this setup create any network performance drawbacks ? thankx
	Answer by Dmitri Abaimov posted 22 Jun 2003
Dear Faisal, This will not work. You cannot create a ring with 10/100BASE-T Ethernet devices that are designed for star topology only. Sincerely, Dmitri Abaimov, RCDD
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