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Posted by Robert Redelmeier on August 3, 2006, 2:03 pm
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bpanders71@hotmail.com wrote in part:
> I had an odd experience the other day while building a
> Linux machine. I was installing Puppy Linux on an old
> computer, and set it up for DHCP. I have two main machines
> in my office connected to a 5 port Linksys 10/100 workgroup
> hub. one an XP Pro machine that is my main desktop, and
> the other a SUSE 10 Linux box acting as DHCP server and
> backup server.
> Once I had Puppy Linux installed and configured, I started
> to test connectivity, surf the web, use rdesktop, etc.
> When this happened I noticed my XP machine (only) got
> knocked offline. I shut off the Puppy Linux machine and I
> still had problems until I physically removed the ethernet
> cable from the Puppy's network card.
> I tried setting Puppy up for static IP, but ran into the
> same problem. I then installed Damn Small Linux with
> similar results. Again, in both cases, lost network
> conenctivity in XP until I pulled the network cable.
> SUSE Linux seemed to be fine during all this.
First, the stupid question: you aren't plugging the Puppy
into a Xover port next to the XP machines cable? Some small
switches/hubs have one more jack than their capabilities.
That extra jack is an XOver for uplink.
Otherwise, dump the arp and route tables from the Linux DHCP server.
This seems more hardware than software. Try a different hub.
-- Robert
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