[K12OSN] Gigabit headach
Shane Stafford
staffords at glenburn.net
Tue Aug 31 23:20:19 UTC 2004
oh knowing who did our cabling and the fact we just purchased 5 of these
switches, this is not a good thing.
ah well, life stays interesting
Shane
"Support list for opensource software in schools." <k12osn at redhat.com> on
Tuesday, August 31, 2004 at 7:12 PM -0500 wrote:
>On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 22:46, Duane Wilson wrote:
>> I took everyones advice and bought the amer.com SR24G2.
>>
>> Installed it between server and terminals.
>>
>> Tried to boot terminals all at once - nada!
>> Would not even get DHCP
>>
>> Tried one terminal.
>> Got DHCP but choked on 'loading vmlinuz'
>>
>> There is about 230 ft. of cat Ve from the server to the AR24G2.
>>
>> Is that too far?
>> Did I crimp the end wrong? (It works fine when connected to the old
>100
>> Mbit)
>> Is my switch bad?
>>
>> Anyone???
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Duane Wilson
>>
>>
>I agree with Terrell. The tolerances for Gig vs 100mb are substantial.
>Just because it works with 100mb does *not* mean it will work with gig.
>Take it from a person who has already gone through what you are going
>through. Check your cabling. It has to be done *perfectly* for gig to
>work over copper.
>
>Jack
>
>
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Shane Stafford, MCSE, MCT
Director Information Services Glenburn School and Town
Educational System Integrator/Network Engineer
S & B Consulting
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