100 is over the standard length (which I believe is 12 feet). Your equipment may not be powerful enough to throw packets that far down a cable. Those little linksys devices are good but not the most powerful ones. If you need it that long, you may need to make 2 50 foot cables and put a repeater in the middle or something.
Also, make sure that your cable is going out of the router and into the Uplink on the switch (which crosses over the cable for you). If you are connecting port to port, you need a cross over cable. Emanuel -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Gary Tsai Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 6:07 PM To: SigLinux Subject: [Siglinux] Ethernet switch weirdness i'm trying to connect my router to a switch in another room. i cut a 25' ethernet cable, and if i use that, it works fine. if i use a longer one though (say 50 or 100'), it doesn't work. i get a flashing ACT light. i'm sure that 100' is not too long a cable to attach to a switch. any idea what's going on? the router is a linksys 4 port and the switch is a linksys 5 port. thanks a lot! GT _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux
