<div>2009/5/15 Peter Childs <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pchilds@bcs.org">pchilds@bcs.org</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Just rack every one brain.<br>
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I have a small network made up of a number of Unmanaged Switches we<br>
have gathered over a period of time.<br>
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Its about 40 PC wired round about 8 unmanaged switches. (Says he<br>
trying to count them)<br>
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We suffer from Random Packet loss from time to time, this is usally<br>
fixed by unplugging the machine suffering from this error and plugging<br>
back in again. (The network cable)<br>
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Where to start working out how to cure the problem on a more perminate basis....<br>
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I'm wondering if the problem is Network Card, Cable, Switch or<br>
Drivers. or what.....<br>
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Thanks</blockquote><div> </div><div></div><div>I would guess you have a switching loop some place and could be suffering a broadcast storm. This could be initiated from a faulty NIC. We had a similar problem couple of years ago and replaced all unmanaged switches with managed ones and enabled STP. This stabilised the network and stopped switching loops/broadcast storms.</div>
<div></div><div>Colin</div><div>(just my uneducated guess) </div></div>