If you have a volt/ohm meter and a patch cable long enough to plug in one end and reach the other, start checking continuity I guess. I bet one of the wires has a weak connection in the 'punch'. Speaking of which, your patch cables test good, right? -MJ On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Yaron wrote: > Hey all, > > Ok, so I got the 1000' of Cat5e, a bunch of RJ45 Cat5e-certified jacks, > faceplates and modules, etc. And I wired the crap out of the place. > > Being a complete dork, I didn't test the first wire I put in. I just put > in about 12, punched everything down (using the 568B scheme), and THen > plugged a machine in one end and patched over to the switch on the other > end. > > Link light comes on, 100M light comes on, DHCP server sees machine send > request, machine doesn't see DHCP server send reply. > > I tested all the cables outside the walls and they're fine. I tried > several different machines and NICs, and it looks like they can all > transmit and not receive. > > Naturally I have no Cat5 testing equipment, but I opened up a few plugsto > make sure I _did_ in fact punch everything down correctly, and it looks > like I did. > > Anyone have any clues/suggestions? > > -Yaron > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >