and we won't stop..
a last question before i retire for the day. for some reason i'm only able to
use one machine to access (ping) the gateway.
to be a little less vague:
2 comps connected to a hub which gets it's 'uplink' from the gateway. one of
these computers can ping the gateway (both external ip and internal) and the
net. while the other can only ping the other none gateway computer but
neither the internal or external ip of the gateway.
the gateway can only ping the fully connected machine, no response from the
other.
when switching the sockets (i.e. 'red' went in 'tp1' so now 'tp2' and 'blue'
from 'tp2' to 'tp1') to which the rj-45 plugs are connected to the hub
results in a switch of roles between the fully operational computer and the
less functional one.
this obviously suggests something is wrong with the hub.. but there's not
exactly much that can be done to make things go wrong...
it's a tp-link 10BASE-T hp8m ethernet hub.
can someone explain this behavior, any hunches.. etc?
Brendon
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