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Here's my setup:
Small office w/ 5 desktop machines, all running Windows XP.
Netgear wireless router w/ 4 ethernet ports.
D-Link 8 port switch.
Cable modem connected to the wan port on the Netgear box.
Fileserver (Linux w/ Samba installed) connected to Netgear wireless router.
All desktop machines are connected to the D-Link switch.
D-Link switch is in turn connected to the Netgear box.
Netgear box is acting as dhcp server and all 5 desktop machines get tcp/ip
info configuration via dhcp (ie. no static ip addresses)
Ok, so, that's my network topology, in a nutshell.
Here's the problem:
4 out of 5 desktop machines have no problems at all (ie. they can get dhcp,
connect to the 'net, connect to the fileserver, ping each other, etc.)
The problem is with the fifth desktop machine. So, some background on this
machine:
When I was first called about this issue, the machine had two network
interfaces: a regular wired ethernet and an 802.11b adapter. There was no
connectivity at all on the wired nic (they had just had a power surge, so I
figured that it was fried), but the wireless nic worked. However, the
wireless nic was too slow for their needs, so I installed another wired nic
(known to be working) and took the wireless one out. Which brings me to where
I am now:
The machine will not retrieve dhcp on either nic (it tries for a while then
self assigns). If I assign static ip addresses, the icons in the system tray
indicate that there is full connectivity, but I cannot ping or otherwise
connect to anything. So, I think that I've basically ruled out any problems
with hardware. Any thoughts on what this issue might be?
-Richard Jones
Small office w/ 5 desktop machines, all running Windows XP.
Netgear wireless router w/ 4 ethernet ports.
D-Link 8 port switch.
Cable modem connected to the wan port on the Netgear box.
Fileserver (Linux w/ Samba installed) connected to Netgear wireless router.
All desktop machines are connected to the D-Link switch.
D-Link switch is in turn connected to the Netgear box.
Netgear box is acting as dhcp server and all 5 desktop machines get tcp/ip
info configuration via dhcp (ie. no static ip addresses)
Ok, so, that's my network topology, in a nutshell.
Here's the problem:
4 out of 5 desktop machines have no problems at all (ie. they can get dhcp,
connect to the 'net, connect to the fileserver, ping each other, etc.)
The problem is with the fifth desktop machine. So, some background on this
machine:
When I was first called about this issue, the machine had two network
interfaces: a regular wired ethernet and an 802.11b adapter. There was no
connectivity at all on the wired nic (they had just had a power surge, so I
figured that it was fried), but the wireless nic worked. However, the
wireless nic was too slow for their needs, so I installed another wired nic
(known to be working) and took the wireless one out. Which brings me to where
I am now:
The machine will not retrieve dhcp on either nic (it tries for a while then
self assigns). If I assign static ip addresses, the icons in the system tray
indicate that there is full connectivity, but I cannot ping or otherwise
connect to anything. So, I think that I've basically ruled out any problems
with hardware. Any thoughts on what this issue might be?
-Richard Jones