So called "uplink" ports are meant to plug a switch into another switch, not a router. Some newer switches also do cable autosense and will cross the RX/TX pairs if needed (your Linksys probably does this).
--Bill On 3/3/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I have seemed to have fixed it, but the solution makes no sense to me. > Perhaps it will make more sense to those of you with more networking > knowledge than I. > > All of the cables leaving the PfSense box went to switches. The one hooked up > to the LAN had the cable plug into a regular port on the LAN switch, all the > others were plugged into the "uplink" port on those switches. > > So, when I moved all of the cables from the "uplink" port on the switches, to > a regular port on those switches, all of a sudden things worked just fine. > > Why? I thought the purpose of the uplink was to connect to a higher "switch" > (in this case, the PfSense box a.k.a router). The former router (a commercial > speedstream that the pfsense box replaces) worked just fine with all the > switches hooked up with the uplink port. Heck, even my pfsense box at home > worked just fine with my linksys switch using the uplink port. > what is with this ambiguity?! > > Anyways, thanks to you all for help. I'm sorry if I may have caused any > problems. > If anybody knows why what I did works (why the uplink port seems to be a > curse/miracle) please explain, I would love to know. And besides, if somebody > ever has the same problem, and they search the mailing lists, they'll find > the answer. > Thanks again! > Anthony > > > -------------- Original message ---------------------- > From: "Bill Marquette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > So let me get this straight. > > > > The cable that's plugged into the LAN nic if unplugged from LAN and > > plugged into each of the OPT nics works? Sounds like a switch or > > cable issue. Have you tried the reverse? Plug the cables that are in > > the non-working OPT interfaces into the known working interface (LAN)? > > And for that matter, plugging the known working cable and the known > > working interface into the switch ports that you are trying to plug > > the OPT interfaces in? > > > > --Bill > > > > On 3/3/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > nope, doesn't fix it. Just upgraded. Still as broke as it was an hour ago. > > > The system is a Dell Optiplex (I can't find the model number at this > > > time) It > > has a Pentium 3 and a 10 GB harddrive, if that helps at all. > > > > > > > > > -------------- Original message ---------------------- > > > From: "Scott Ullrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > On 3/3/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > > I'm using Beta 1 right now, because I don't think that upgrading to > > > > > Beta2 > > > > would > > > > > fix this. > > > > > > > > Upgrade. There was only 91+ fixes between beta1 and beta2 and > > > > countless FreeBSD fixes. > > > > > > > > Scott > > > > > > > >
