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Token Ring to Ethernet Migration

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by jkeav634

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The site has 7 PC's using 3com Combo
cards(coax and ethernet) in a token ring
enviroment. All systems are running Win
95/98. We have purchase a non-managed HP
switch and will be changing everyone over to
ethernet(removing all coax).
My question is:
Will this migration just be a matter of
disconnecting the coax and running the cat5
wires and connecting them to the switch?
Will I have to redo any drive mapping or
anything like that? I assume since the pc's are
already setup for tcpip that this should not be
a problem.
Any advice is appreciated.
Thanks

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by jose mir

Token-Ring or Thin Ethernet?

Are you sure you have a Token Ring Network?
By your short description (NICs having Coax and Ethernet ports; you don't say anything about MAUS; and you say you are going to change only the wires and add a switch) it seems to me that you have an Ethernet network over Coaxial wire and you want to upgrade to Twisted-Pair wiring.
If you do have a Token-Ring network you will need not only rewire and add a switch (the switch will replace the MAU or the Token-Ring HUB); you will also need to replace the NICs (Network Interface Cards) and, of course, replace the drivers in the OSs.
But, if you have a Coaxial Ethernet and will upgrade to Twisted-Pair you need to rewire and add the switch (you wrote that your cards had Coax and Ethernet ports, and I'm assuming that you say Ethernet port you really mean Twisted-pair port) . If your cards are not Auto-Sensing you will need to configure every card to use the Twisted-Pair port (3Coms 3C590 NICs are Auto-Sensing, so, if you have this model you won't have to make any configuration).
You will not have to worry about drive mappings or TCP/IP configuration.

Regards,

Jose P. Mir
jpm@jpmir.net

by ebob

Please consider the thoughts in Answer 1.

As for drive mappings and such: these application type issues should NOT be affected.

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