On Dec 12, 1999 at 11:37:42AM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> I finally tracked it down. The loss is occuring in the link between
> two of my switches. The link goes across my apartment - about 60 feet of
> Cat-5 cable. That should be well within spec (you are supposed to be
> able to do 100 meters) but it causes packet loss. The switches
> autonegotiate full-duplex for the link (and I verified that it's actually
> running at full duplex), but that's where the packet loss occurs. Very
> weird.
>
> I was finally able to fix it by dropping in a 10BaseT hub to force the
> switches to negotiate 10BaseT across the link.
>
> Maybe my cable is damaged or something. I'll run a second cable to see
> if that's the problem or whether.
>
> The second switch is a LinkSys. I have a D-Link near my servers and a
> LinkSys near my workstation.
Another thing I to keep in mind, is that sometimes the switch is bad.
I had a Netgear FS509 switch here that would eat packets transmitted
through the GigE port under certain conditions. Netgear shipped me
a new one, and I've been happy with it, until the same problem started
happening again this morning.
Perhaps in this case, it's a bad fiber cable, I'll have to do some
more testing to track it down.
--
Jonathan
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