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More Than One Fiber Optic 100 Megabit Ethernet Standard?
Is there more than one standard for passing 100 Base ethernet over fiber? I have a media converter that says it will convert from 100Base-T to 100Base-FX at 850nm. The device I need to plug this to (a...
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Fibre Channel over Gigabit WAN Ethernet without FCIP possible?
Hi group, I have a general understanding question. We have a SAN and we need to extend it to a second location via a 1GB WAN-Ethernet circuit. All my research brought back to use the FCIP feature of...
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Best way to use 5Mbps LAN extension to remote office?
Currently we have two offices. A head office with a Terminal Server and a remote office with approx 25 people (and their own domain server) who all connect to the TS at head office, through a DSL...
 
Linksys says I need a Windows machine to update my firmware
On 24 Jun 2007, J.J. O'Shea posted some news: Fucking absolute bullshit. That's a perfect example why most of you Mac morons have the well deserved reputations for technical incompetence and stupidity...
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CCIE Lounge
Come check out The CCIE Lounge at blog is dedicated to those sometimes offbeat discussions around passing the CCIE Lab exams. Topics include router/firewall emulation, undocumented IOS commands, and...
 
data plane
Hello, I hit on terms 'data plane' and 'control plane', but hardly was able to find proper explanations. Could someone give me links on the technical literature or explain these? Thanks.
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strange ethernet electric problem
Hello, we have to connect two computers via ethernet in an industrial enviroment. we are using a crossover cable to connect both computers. If i connect my laptop running with bateries to one of this...
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VLAN Routing
I posted awhile back on another group explaining my situation. We are trying to bring together two very large networks. So here is the situation. I have a church I'm trying to help out with a network...
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506e 2 interfaces
I have an 506e with 2 interfaces and I need to setup an vlan for a new internet network that I need to setup. But the box states my limit has be reached which I found out it is only 2. Is there a way...
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Generate packet with bad CRC
Hi, Does someone know if there's a way to send ethernet packet with bad CRC, with a fiber optic card? And if it is also possible to count them on a fiber optic card? it seems that "ethtool -S eth0"...
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Change MAC address
I have a question geared toward anyone familar with networking. I needto change my IP address and/or change my MAC address. Does anyone know that this is possible? If this is possible, please tell me...
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Auto MDI/X for Gigabit Ethernet 1000BASE-T
Hello - I have a question on the Auto MDI/X feature on 1000BASE-T Gigabit Ethernet Copper. Does it work using same concepts as in Fast Ethernet 100B-TX? In 100BASE-TX it used 2 pairs whereas in...
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3com and roving analysis port
I trying to enable roving on and "3Com SuperStack 3 Switch 4400" with a total of 3 members in the stack, but im getting an error stating; "No ports are available to be used for Roving Analysis." What...
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Looking for low cost Ethernet split switch
I am doing some testing, I have Two router boards (switch ports), I have to connect my laptop to one board at a time, everytime 15 Minutes I have to swap my laptop ethernet connection to the board, Is...
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Fiber card in promiscuous mode under linux
Hi, I have a fiber optic tap and two computers under widows/linux with fiber cards. The tap gives a copy of the network stream in two fibers, each connected to the input diber port of the tho...
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