Andreas Weber put forth on 4/6/2010 2:08 AM: > On 2010-04-04 01:42, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> Telling the OP to throw out a multi thousand dollar 24 port managed GigE >> switch due to a minor issue with one PC or server is not very sage advice. > > I said "try changing", not "throw out" (reading and quoting is a basic > skill). Having sold many _multi-thousand-Euro-switches_ let me tell you > that they can be broken right from the start. DOA should ring a bell. A > simple temporary change of the switch (often the replacement is provided > by the vendor) would immediately show if this could be the problem. > > It's a bit of a general problem on lists like this one (very technical > ones) that some very smart people dislike simple straight forward > solutions to be checked first, although it happens all the time that > smart people stumble over simple problems. Instead they like to tell > other people they're not sage enough. > > So sorry for my "Is the cable ok?" approach as a first aid, I will keep > my mouth shut now, knowing that there's a savvy elite around.
Please forgive me if my choice of words offended you. That wasn't my intention at all. I was speaking figuratively, not literally. My point was that swapping out the production switch, which probably has others users plugged in, shouldn't be the first troubleshooting step, especially if it's a managed switch and can thus show per port configuration and traffic data. This data usually shines a bight light on these types of issues. Usually the problem in cases like the OP is having relate to VLAN configuration. On manyy/most managed switches which have global VLANs already configured, but not all ports configured, if you plug a PC into an unconfigured port the PC sees a dead network. The solution is to add that port to one or more appropriate VLANs. -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4bbb11a7.4010...@hardwarefreak.com
