On Thursday, September 13, 2012 09:45:02 AM Merrill Oveson wrote: > Anybody know anybody who could help me: > > a) troubleshoot this. I need to nail down the problem. > > b) if indeed the problem is with the switches, recommend a switch > manufacturer I not that impressed with NetGear. > I called technical support and they said that I had to pay for > technical support because the switches are more than a year old. > And if my switches were indeed bad or going bad - tough luck - because > they are more than a year old. > > Do switches go bad?
Two things come to mind in my experience. One was once I was having issues with a port on a managed switch. It turns out the port I was plugged into was set at some time to echo another port on the switch for something someone was troubleshooting a while back before I was hired and then forgot to turn it off. So check to make sure the port is not set to something unexpected. The other is cabling. When I was first hired at my job, the cabling for the office was a nightmare in the server room. I set out to clean it up. We had a couple of different switches and a cable between them to extend the number of other cables we could plug into the office network. Turns out if you have such a mess that you accidentally put two cables connecting the switches instead of one, the Cisco could handle that fine, the Dlink freaked out. - Jake /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
