[TriLUG] OT: failed 10/100 switch?

[Ken Mink]

On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 08:55, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> Just wondering if anyone has ideas here...
> 
> I bought a cheapo 10/100 switch for home to replace my old 10MB hub. The
> switch connects two desktop machines (one Win98, one Debian) and one
> firewall/router/etc. (debian).  All have 10/100 cards in them (IBM eepros
> in the debian machines, HP something or other in the Win98) and the
> network works fine on the 10MB hub.
> 
> I switched over to the 10/100 switch and communication with the Win98
> machine died.  The link LED came on, and I rebooted the Win98 machine
> (since that's how you usually fix those :)), and still nothing. Moving the
> plugs back to the hub fixed everything.
> 
> Am I looking at a DOA switch, or could something else be going on?

Are you using in wall wiring? I had the same problem when I switched to
100Mb at home. I did the network wiring myself during construction. One
run worked fine at 10Mb but not at 100Mb. Since it's a lot harder to
pull wires now, I just live with 10Mb on that jack.

Ken
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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