[TriLUG] OT: failed 10/100 switch?

[Andrew Perrin]

Ran it myself - could be the problem. Unfortunately it doesn't even work
at 10MB on that switch, so the whole network would have to stay at 10 (not
the end of the world, but not optimal either).

ap

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Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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On 11 Oct 2002, Ken Mink wrote:

> 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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