Glenn, Are all the machines you are plugging into this switch on the same network?
This may seem like an odd question, but I accidentally plugged the wrong LAN cable (attached to a machine on another network) into my Linksys switch and it totally hosed the switch. All my clients stopped working until I powered down and repowered the switch. Is it possible one of the machines you are plugging in is (even if by typo) on a different network? A hub will route several different networks simultaneously, these unmanaged switches don't. Pete Morse wrote: > > Thank you all for your excellent suggestions, I have now tried boot > images from Etherboot 5.0.5 and 5.0.6, Linksys LNE100-TX and 3Com 3c905B > nics, various known-good cables, 5-port switches from Linksys, Netgear, > and D-Link, an astonishing array of invectives, and still the only thing > that works is my old Linksys 5-port 10 megabit hub (along with any > combination of nics). At this point, I am ready to give up and go buy a > better hub to use on this network segment, but I shudder to think of the > collision storm that will arise from running my file/print/MP3/terminal > server on a hub, serving 2 workstations (each with sound support) and 8 > other computers across the network. > > Several people have suggested using only half-duplex, I have not tried > this yet because (1) I don't really know how to do this :) and (2) I > don't think that would solve the original problem here, which is to > avoid having so many network collisions from just one client. If you can > provide me with an easy answer for (1), I am willing to try it! > Actually, at this point, if you have any suggestions at all, no matter > how weird, I am willing to try them. > > Thanks again for all your help, sorry for spamming the mailing list! > > -Glenn > > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
