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On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 19:01 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: |
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> On 1/17/06, Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng@×××.com> wrote: |
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> > > But the problems you describe sound like some other device on the |
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> > > network has the same address as your PC. |
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> > I think it's more like too much broadcast or problematic Switch/hub |
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> > etc?? I don't knwo |
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> If it was a switch problem, it should not be specific to some |
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> addresses. |
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All the Ports connected to that Switch?? |
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> Have you contacted your ISP? |
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Not ISP. @Work. We'll see how things go |
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> The other option is to get a second PCMCIA card, and swap them when |
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> you have trouble. |
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Perhaps it is time for an upgrade. I've been recycling this old DELL |
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rebadged 3COM 3c509 10BaseT for such a long time. (9 years in fact) |
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> Since the second card would have a different MAC, |
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> it would get a different address. |
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Right now, I'm on the Laptop's internal NIC. (I need 2 nics to enable |
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NAT for my Desktop as well) |
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Ow Mun Heng |
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Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM |
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98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! |
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Neuromancer 10:20:27 up 1 day, 23 min, 6 users, load average: 1.38, |
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1.12, 0.89 |
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