Just a thought, but howabout swapping the 2 SBs over, just to see if
it's a hardware problem with the one SB.
--
Patrick Dixon
www.at-tunes.co.uk
Patrick Dixon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=90
snarlydwarf;160525 Wrote:
> This can be a bit misleading though. There are two basic types of
> Ethernet cables: straight and crossover.
It is defo a crossover cable and have used it to connect two machines
which do not auto-detect and get them to talk.
Have tried connecting both of these machi
raintonr;160517 Wrote:
>
> Yup - connected two machines with it as a test - works just fine.
>
This can be a bit misleading though. There are two basic types of
Ethernet cables: straight and crossover.
A straight cable is going to be pin 1 <-> pin 1, pin 2 <-> pin 2, etc.
A cross will follow
> Here's how it SHOULD work:
> - you connect a crossover wire to the SB Ethernet port, and connect the
> other end to the device you want to bridge.
Yup - done that. When you change region on the SB2 or power cycle it
the machine on the other end of cable sees LINK down then up.
> - on reset* if y
Here's how it SHOULD work:
- you connect a crossover wire to the SB Ethernet port, and connect the
other end to the device you want to bridge.
- on reset* if you request to connect to SlimServer wirelessly, the
next option would be to bridge the connection. Note you have to
connect to SlimServe
raintonr;160376 Wrote:
> Absolutely.
Ah... erm... or so I thought!
OK, so this gets a bit weird... I was originally running an old 6.5beta
of Slimserver when beginning to set this up. From memory this was dated
a couple weeks before the official 6.5 release. SB2s were on firmware
62.
I am 100%
Patrick Dixon;160368 Wrote:
> You have been through the wireless setup menus and made sure you have
> bridging mode on - haven't you?
Absolutely.
Some diagnostics could help here. There's no lights on the SB2 ethernet
port so a status menu that could flash when packets came in/out would be
very
You have been through the wireless setup menus and made sure you have
bridging mode on - haven't you?
--
Patrick Dixon
www.at-tunes.co.uk
Patrick Dixon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=90
View th
>
> http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4557
Don't think so... doesn't appear to pass any packets ever.
>
> http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3660
Don't think so... doesn't matter whether the packets are DHCP or
otherwise. Setting the IP address of LB2 manually didn't have an
Related?
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4557
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3660
--
MrC
MrC's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=468
View this thread: http://forums.slimdevi
10 matches
Mail list logo
