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WakeONLAN did not work for direct cable connection ? (Nics were shutdown after a night of sleep ?)
Hello, I have two computers directly connected via a UTP cable (for ethernet). Both computers have wake on lan enabled. Both computers use windows xp. Both windows xp are told to not turn off the...
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MSTP, LACP (and possible UDLD?)
I'm setting up a new small backbone network (and edges too, partly) and I figured I'd do it _right_ this time and create a bit of redundancy and stuff. Anyway, I'm a bit confused right now... But...
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Fiber LAN -- A couple questions
Hi Folks, (Not sure if this is an appropriate group for this question; sorry if it isn't.) We currently have a 100Base Ethernet network and are moving to a new location so taking advantage of the...
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HD/FD autonegociation
Bonjour, Was it possible to achieve HD or FD selection by autonegociation, at the time where the both modes existed? Best regards, Michelot
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Disabling Auto-negotiation
Did anyone happen to see the recent article by blogger Joel Spolsky which in passing seems to advise disabling auto-negotiation in "mission critical" environments? 7-9 contain the part I'm curious...
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new switching technologies
Hello, In a press I'm often meeting the reports about the new emerging switching technologies, may be not quite new, as I understand those have been around for 2-3 years so far. As I could grasp the...
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connect to gigabit switches
I have 2 dell poweredge 5448 switches. What would be the best way to connect them for performance CR
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Router knows it all?
I have broadband internet at home. The WAN port on my router has a public address, and all the hosts on my LAN have private addresses. The router performs NAT so that we can all access the internet...
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Optimize File Transfer on a 100Mbps LAN
Hi, I am using Windows XP on all my PC's. They are interconnected via 100Mbps Switch ports. These are normal Soho switches nothing fancy. I am trying to figure out how to get the most out of the LAN....
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DHCP: Quick connection with a cross-over
Let's say we have Mary's laptop and Brian's laptop. Brian has a 6 GB movie file on his hard disk that he wants to transfer to Mary. Both laptops have a NIC with an ethernet port, so obviously it would...
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Switch suggestions
Hello. We have here mostly HP or Allied Telesyn switches. In the HPs we like the lifetime warranty. The Allied Telesyns we bought because they had fanless models (those were 100Mb/s), which are nice...
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Testing output voltage
Hello - I'm trying to troubleshoot a problem where the output voltage on certain switch ports is outside of the 950 - 1050 mVolt range. This is found using a Tek scope. Does anyone know of a handheld...
 
Interface cycles down-up, no STP TCN apparent
Gang: Anyone know what the maximum amount of time an interface could transition from 'line protocol down' to 'line protocol up without triggering a STP topology change notification? Reason I ask, I...
 
HP/Cisco Vlan fun
We have recently installed a new VoIP phone system, I got two Vlans configured on all the HP switches (they are the only ones that are POE) with them configed as vlan1 (data) being untagged and 200...
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What equipment to go for?
Hi I currently have in a network a Linux box acting as router. This box as acts an interVLAN router that connects 3 VLANs and provides DHCP to each VLAN. A fourth interface is connected to a Cisco 805...