[Gllug] bridging ports on a 3com switch

[Matthew Thompson]

On Friday, November 29, 2002, at 10:41 AM, Xander D Harkness wrote:

> John Hearns wrote:
>> On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Xander D Harkness wrote:
>>> My brother who is still stuck at work trying to get a wireless link 
>>> going has run into a couple of difficulties.
>>>
>>> He has four wireless aerials two on either side of the divide.
>> Xander, a diagram would help here.
> A diagram is attached
>
> It is channel bonding that is being used.  You are quite correct, the 
> switches were purchased for this purpose.  They have worked at some 
> point; however the behaviour they are exhibiting seemed very odd.

Now I see.

> Obviously to ssh to a point there must be two way traffic; however 
> this traffic may only be initiated from one side of the network.
>
>
> Network X and Y are separated on the diagram to show two separate 
> buildings.  They are both part of the same physical network 
> 192.168.5.0/24
>
> I can Ping from X to Y and SSH from a host in building X to Y.  I 
> cannot do the reverse.
>
> If A and B and C and D are swapped
>
> I can then ping from Y to X and ssh from a host in Y to X but I can no 
> longer ping from X to Y or ssh.

You're using straight cables I take it. Can you try swapping the cables 
out for new or confirmed ones? Also does it work if you take one pair 
of the wireless units out completely?

What wireless bridges are you using btw?

M at t :o)


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