sorry for the OT but i wonder if anyone of you had the same experience that up to now,
am still thinking of this weird thing in networking that happened to me.
I was configuring a linux box for use by a Technical School up north as their dial-up
server that would serve internet connection for their lab. The box was up and running
in no time. btw, their using an Athlon/AMD Structure (that i knew would give me real
headaches esp. the board's architecture). So what i did was i setup everything in
their Hard drive using an Intel-based PC. Everything was fine.
When we are about to install it in their lab, there was an even more great weirdness.
The machines (all AMD/Athlon PCs) were found to be lost in the network. As in they can
ping their own IPs but not the IPs of other machines in the network. I tried looking
at their WiN2000 TCP/IP properties (damn thing, it was so confusing) and everything
was there. btw, all PCs are installed with a Realtek 8139 10/100 NICs.
Then i was curious about their network HUB. It's a CNET (forgot the model) 100/10
Stackable 24 port HUB. I tried using both straight and cross cables but nothing seems
to get right.
Finally, i tried using my own 10BaseT 8 port HUB for the sake of investigating and
impressed them of the functionality of LINUX. And voila, it worked!!!
Any violent reactions? Suggestions? What do you think of their HUB? Is it really the
hub that caused the no-connectivity of all workstations?
Thanks for reading and i'll be waiting for your feedbacks.
more power,
ZeejVal
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