[Klug-general] Network Switches

[Peter Childs]

2009/5/16 nic dan <dungeons88 at hotmail.com>:
> Hi Peter [got it right. now, originally sent to Colin, sorry if late]
>
> Most replies seem to focus on switches/network cards/type&make, however my
> experience of this is that often cabling gets chafed in doors/wheeled
> on/trodden on/pulled etc & I presume you have tried unplugging switch
> cleanering & replugging &/or replacing cables?
> You should have at least one more modern managed switch in circuit as you
> are probably getting packet/path crashing/storms, as has been suggested
>
> Aitch :)
>
>
>> Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 11:42:27 +0100
>> From: pchilds at bcs.org
>> To: kent at mailman.lug.org.uk
>> Subject: [Klug-general] Network Switches
>>
>> Just rack every one brain.
>>
>> I have a small network made up of a number of Unmanaged Switches we
>> have gathered over a period of time.
>>
>> Its about 40 PC wired round about 8 unmanaged switches. (Says he
>> trying to count them)
>>
>> We suffer from Random Packet loss from time to time, this is usally
>> fixed by unplugging the machine suffering from this error and plugging
>> back in again. (The network cable)
>>
>> Where to start working out how to cure the problem on a more perminate
>> basis....
>>
>> I'm wondering if the problem is Network Card, Cable, Switch or
>> Drivers. or what.....
>>
>> Thanks
>>


Right

The 3 24 Port Switches are all LinkSys.
The 8 Port ones are a mix of Soho, US. Robotics, and some marked WF302
with no other labels

The WF302 ones don't work crash regularly so I only use them as a last resort.

The machine which seam to have the problems are mainly plugged
directly into one of the big LinkSys Switches. Which I find odd.

I would tend to agree that generally I would always blame the cable
first, It just does not feel right in this case, which is why I was
questioning the kit.

Peter