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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