firewall spontaneously disconnects from Ethernet hub

[agabriel at coe.neu.edu (Anthony J. Gabrielson)]

Have you tried another port on Hub 2?  Do you have a cross over cable?
Sometimes with a cross cable and another port things will work better.
Maybe the port on the hub is flaky.  Which Linksys box do you have?

Anthony

On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Seth Gordon wrote:

> Following the advice of several folks on this list, I bought another hub
> and configured the nework like so:
> 
>    --------------   ---------   --------------------
> ---| DSL router |---| Hub 1 |---|   horse-nettle   |
>    --------------   ---------   | (216.254.79.186) |
>                         |       --------------------
>              ------------------------
>              | (WAN 216.254.79.185) |
>              |       Linksys        |
>              |  (LAN 192.168.1.1)   |
>              ------------------------
>                         |
>                     ---------
>                     | Hub 2 |
>                     ---------
>                       |    |
>        -----------------  -----------------
>        |    petunia    |  |   eggplant    |
>        | (192.168.1.3) |  | (192.168.1.4) |
>        -----------------  -----------------
> 
> The (next) problem started when I turned petunia back on and tried to
> configure the Linksys.  After a few minutes of perfectly normal operation,
> the connection between the Linksys and Hub 2 went down, or perhaps I should
> say "half-down" -- the LED on the "LAN" side of the Linksys *stayed on*,
> but the link light on the appropriate port of *Hub 2* went out.
> 
> Unplugging the Linksys from the hub and plugging it back in doesn't seem to
> work.  Disconnecting Hub 2's power supply for a few seconds and then
> plugging it back in worked once, but not always.  The most reliable way to
> bring the connection back is to disconnect the Linksys from the hub and
> then reconnect it *to a port that it has not been connected to before*. 
> (The Linksys has a switch on the back to choose between a straight-through
> or crossover connection, so I can either plug it into the "uplink" port on
> Hub 2 or one of the regular ports.)
> 
> But the connection went down again a few minutes after I turned eggplant
> back on, and after I corrected the problem again, it went down again some
> time between last night and this morning.
> 
> If swapping out the cable between Hub 2 and the Linksys doesn't resolve the
> problem, what should I do?
> 
> -- 
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>  whom I think would make great landfill."  --Elaine Ashton
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