I've tried that. Since it is a switch, it needs to determine the mac address of what is connected to each port. It should determine that after power cycling the switch. It did find the mac addresses of the windows machines, but not the linux machines. I knew the mac addresses of the 2 linux boxes, so I did arp queries for both of those, and the switch still did not pick them up. This thing I found was, the linux boxes heard broadcasts, but not specifically directed traffic. This is where I felt that it was NOT a cabling issue, as if it was, the linux boxes would not have heard the broadcast traffic. Each operating system has it's own implementation of the ARP protocol, and is slightly different. My assumption that the Linksys product could not interact with the Linux implementation of ARP.
Ricky -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bill LeBlanc Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 10:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [brluglist] Linux vs Microsoft and DHCP Ricky, I don't have experience with Linux and Linksys products, but from the experience I have had with Windows, I have found that Linksys products do not generally like "hot swapping". Their routers don't like you to plug anything into them while it is running. I have solved problems on several occasions by turning the router and everything connected to it off, including the cable modem. Leave them off for a minute or so, then power up first the router, then the cable modem, then the machines connected to them, with a several second pause between each power-up to allow initialization. Might help. Bill At 09:30 AM 2/1/2002 -0600, you wrote: >I have had problems using Linux with Linksys products. I've called their >tech support before, and they insisted it was a cabling issue, and not a >hardware issue. The funny thing was, using the same cabling and order, I >would plug all the machines into a SMC hub, and everything worked fine. I >stepped them through the whole process, and they still insisted that it was >a cabling issue... ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================ ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================
