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Trouble connecting bt hub to enterprise switch

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Hey guys.

Im currently learning networking as a part of my job, we are messing around with switches to get first hand experience, we got a spare BT business smart hub 6 that wasn't being used so we tried adding it to the network so we could communicate between VLANS.

I don't know if I'm missing something but I can't get the router to detect the switch , I tried plugging a pc up to the same port and it worked fine. The switches ports are enabled , so that can't be it either, I've tried all 4 ports on the back and none seem to register that the switch is connected.

Anyone have a idea why this is ? Or is there something I need to configure in the router settings ? 

Thanks for all the help 

Maciej

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Re: Trouble connecting bt hub to enterprise switch

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Not sure what you mean by the router detecting the switch. The switch will be transparent and the router will just see whatever is connected to the switch.

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Hello, I probably should've clarified a bit more , by detect I meant that the whenever I plug the switch into the router it won't show up on the hub manager , it shows as if the port was empty with nothing plugged in, I get link lights on the switch but no reaction from the router.

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You won't, you will only see devices connected to the switch, not the switch itself.

The hub manager only sees devices connected at the IP layer

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That's interesting, after messing around with it a bit more today we did get the switch to show but only for a little bit , i suppose that was the router showing devices connected to the switch? Although that doesn't make much sense to me , since it came up as 1 device with the switches MAC address. But thank you for your help anyway , I'm sure at some point I'll get it to work together. 

Kind regards

Maciej

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The switch will work just fine, the hub manager network screen is useless.

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Thanks for your help and clarification, hope you enjoy your day.
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