Mike,
thanks for your reply. The problem is that the switch is physically very far
away; I just want know if a shut/no shut that is not followed by an up/down
of the port inidcates that there is some sort of the problem with the switch
port or the cabling.
Thanks again in advance for your help.
Regards,
Hans
>From: Mike Mandulak
>To: Hans Stout , [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: Switch port failure on 3548 [7:15089]
>Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 07:44:33 -0400
>
>The only way I can think that it would be a cable problem is if there was a
>short in the wire somewhere. Unplug the CAT5 from the suspect port, do a
>shut/no shut do you get the same result? Better still plug a PC into the
>port, does it stay up/up? Then plug a PC in another port with an FTP server
>on it and do some file transfers, then check for errors.
>
>MikeM
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Hans Stout"
>To:
>Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 7:51 AM
>Subject: Switch port failure on 3548 [7:15089]
>
>
> > Hello colleagues,
> >
> > I have a Cisco 3548 switch and I suspect that one of the switch ports is
>not
> > working. All 48 ports have a CAT5 cable connection, and all ports are
> > patched to the respective wall outlets, there are no active users yet,
>so
> > all the ports are down/down. When I do a shut/no shut on all the ports,
>I
> > can see in the log that all ports except one show that the port goes up
>and
> > then down. To my best knowledge, the fact that the port goes up/down
>after
>a
> > shut/no shut shows that the port is ok. The port that doesn't work goes
>down
> > right away. My question is: does this mean that the actual physical
>switch
> > port is defective, or that the CAT5 cable attached to the switch isn't
> > working, or that something on the path from the switch port to the wall
> > outlet isn't working ?
> > Thanks for your help in advance !
> >
> > Regards,
> > Hans
> >
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