[K12OSN] Gigabit headach

[Shane Stafford]

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