On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 13:00:43 -0600, Sam MacDonald <smac at visi.com> wrote: > Is the "hub" a switch or a hub? plain old netgear hub..... > > I have an OLD Asante switch but it only has 32k of ram. Once in a while > the memory gets borked up, all the lights start flashing. I have to > power cycle it to make my network function again. Just a thought. > > Sam. > > Johnny Fulcrum wrote: > >> >> Mandrake9.1 on a dell optiplex gx150. >> >> >> >> Network worked fine yesterday, today I'm getting dhcp requests timed >> out. >> >> >> >> I jump though the hoops, set stuff manually using the last know >> settings - nothing works... >> >> >> >> then I unplug the cable, and plug in a new cable and run it to a >> different port on my hub - I do a /etc/init.d/network stop and then a >> /etc/ >> inint.d/network start - everything comes up just fine! >> >> >> >> So I go back to the old cable and hub port - do the stop / start and >> everything is STILL fine... >> >> >> >> what gives? Does the act of unplugging and plugging in a cable to the >> NIC reset something? >> >> >> >> I hate not knowing how a problem was solved!!! >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list