[SWLUG] Re: Discuss digest, Vol 1 #245 - 4 msgs

[Rhys Sage]

Thanks for the info. I've already created my mass-conversion program. It took me about an hour in Delphi 7. 
I've just run across some interesting problems with RJ45 connections. Has anybody else found RJ45 can be mighty peculiar? 
Yesterday: 
I had Aphrodite, Persius and Zeus online. Persius (W98) could see Aphrodite (NT4) but not Zeus (SME Linux). Aphrodite couldn't see either. To be even more strange, Persius could ping Zeus but Aphrodite couldn't ping either. Zeus could only ping Persius.

Later, Persius and Aphrodite could see each other but not Zeus.

Then I unplugged Aphrodite and Persius couldn't see Zeus, which is strange as I'd been using Zeus from Persius only an hour before. Then Aphrodite, when Aphrodite and Zeus were together, Aphrodite and Zeus could see each other.


Today:

I plugged Zeus and Persius together using RJ45 patch cables and a crossover. They wouldn't recognise each other. I rebooted and moved the crossover from Persius to Zeus. They recognise each other! Wierd!

Also...

My Plastic Palm ethernet hub seems to be working as a right old bottleneck. I put it in and data transfer gets ridiculously slow. I take it out and I get fast transfer. I'm talking about speeds so slow that mpeg files on Zeus get really jerky when viewed on Aphrodite or Persius. 

My solution is to add Gareth's Ethernet card to Zeus (remind me to buy you a beer at the next Swansea meet) and a second ethernet card to Persius. The plan is to have Zeus and Persius permanantly connected by RJ45 and the spare card will allow me to connect Aphrodite to whichever pleases me and should still allow me to access the other. IE - connect Aphrodite to Persius to access Zeus etc.

In the fullness of time, when I upgrade Persius to W2K and maybe give it a nice new box, cpu, ram and a display card (it's currently running the sis chipset), I'll give it a new name - Mercury perhaps or maybe Promethius. While it's still a Win98 machine, I'll leave it named after the Roman satirist.

Rhys




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