Faulted wiring.  Not all equipment and OSs handle it the same.

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Matthew Carpenter
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am curious if anyone has ever seen this before. It really threw me
>
> We have a user on a Dell and Mac. The Dell started producing a broadcast
> storm, flooding the network. If you plug the Mac in the SAME port, this did
> not occur. If you move the Dell to another port (we tried four), it did not
> have the same results. We repunched the port to use a different line to the
> main switch, and it was fine after that.
>
> I have not seen this, as clearly it was not a bad NIC, which was our
> assumption. Is it possible the Dell uses different wires in the connection
> than the Mac and one of those was bad? That seems unrealistic to me.
>
> Anyway this is after the fact, but it has been plaguing my mind, lol
>



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