On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Mike Lovell <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 09/13/2012 09:45 AM, Merrill Oveson wrote: > > Pluggers: > > > > Life is good. Then suddenly someone just of of the blue loses his/her > > network connection. > > > > I do the usual ipconfig /release ipconfig /renew and things return to > normal. > > > > When I look in network settings, it's like he/she has lost the > > physical connection. > > I've even gone back and reconnected that person into the switch. > > > > Firewall seems ok. I'm suspicious that my switches are performing up to > par. > > > > Anybody know anybody who could help me: > > > > a) troubleshoot this. I need to nail down the problem. > My guess would be bad cables or a more remote idea is the laptop/pc/whatever. 1. Change to another port on the switch 2. Change to another wall port (the cable between the employee location and the wiring closet) 3. Swap for a new cable from the wall port to the employee device 4. Swap for a new cable in the wiring closet from the switch to the patch panel A cable tester can be handy, but this approach above rules out all cabling issues. -- Chris Wood -=-=-=-=-=-=- /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
