<![CDATA[<p>What is a hub?</p><p><span id="bodyfont" style="font-family:Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">A hub is a simple device which takes traffic over one interface and sends it out to all other interfaces.<span> </span>This means that if you plug an internet connection into one port of the hub the signal will simply be split up to all other ports on the hub.<span> </span>A hub will not do DHCP nor will it interfere with any network service; however, it will require that an external DHCP server is present (for instance Rose-Hulman’s DHCP server) to grant users IP addresses.<span> </span></font></font></p>
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