[olug] victory and defeat w/Linux router @work

[Charles Bird]

Yep, cant get signal from cross over or straight on the 
100m leg 
 
 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Roberson" <roberson at olug.org> 
To: <olug at olug.org> 
Subject: Re: [olug] victory and defeat w/Linux router @work 
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 23:10:39 -0500 
 
>  
> a switch to switch connection requires a cross over 
connection. 
> a end device to end device requires a cross over 
connection 
> a switch to end device requires a straight through 
> routers ( in ethernet view ) is an end device 
>  
>  
>  
> ----- Original Message -----  
> From: "Charles Bird" <thebirdman at operamail.com> 
> To: <olug at olug.org> 
> Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 9:00 PM 
> Subject: [olug] victory and defeat w/Linux router @work 
>  
>  
> My place of employment just hit the 21st century, we have 
a  
> killer line with a 2600 down to a cisco switch thats  
> running some lower bandwidth stuff, thats owned by 
someone  
> else.  Off of the second port coming out the 2600 is the  
> cable to our switch, which is a netgear 16port, 
everything  
> on this switch is fast as heck....we ran about 100M of 
cat6  
> a couple weeks ago to our main building....it meets up 
with  
> another netgear switch, i think its a 24port.  then 
daisied  
> from that is another 2 24port netgears.   
>   
> Ok heres the thing, after the 100m run, we cant get a  
> signal light on the daisy chained connection from sw-sw. 
So  
> Just outta curiosity I built a Clark Connect router today  
> and put that in between the switches, before the long 
run,  
> I got a signal light then on both ends. its a switch  
> somewhat "passive" in that they dont bump up signal much 
as  
> where a router can act as a "relay"?    
> I then configured the network in the main building and 
got  
> the DNS thing figured out so I could get hosts resolved  
> etc. but man o man is it slow. worse than dialup.   
> The network is not congusted at all, two computers hooked  
> up and 4 devises sending 200Kb/s on a DS3.  
>   
> I am assuming that the 100M run taxed the bandwidth alot  
> even though 100M is supposed to be acceptable, as far as 
I  
> know there is not too much RF in the 100M run.  So my  
> question ladies and gents...is there a way to look at  
> signal strength on there? And do any of the gurus have 
any  
> words of wisdom.   
> we are going to do some more trouble shooting tomorrow 
and  
> I'm sure we'll find that its too long of a run, would a  
> router in the middle help?  
> I am not a network engineer, but I play one at work.  
>     
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