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EyeMWing

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I was running a string of red CAT5 across the house (voice phone) to connect to my office. I doubled it into the bundles with the ethernet CAT5, so it came into my office rackspace. While I was threading it from there into the wall, I bumped the main switch (Linksys EF3116 rackmount) and took out it's power connection (somehow). I didn't notice for a good few minutes. I also noticed that I had absentmindedly wrapped the voice wire around the CAT5 bundle, thus giving it an unclean look and tugging on my ethernet cables. Since the voice line was already in the wall, I just unplugged all 16 network cables and pulled them out of that situation. As I reconnected things, I noticed that no matter what I connected to ports 7, 8, 15 and 16, the lights for those ports wouldn't come on. Four ports just DIED. I grabbed a spare Farallon 8+1-port portable and rigged that appropriately.

After everything was reconnected and I was ready to go order a Cisco to replace this behemoth, I found out that for some reason I wasn't getting a DHCP lease. Grabbed the laptop, checked things out at the router-area switch. No go there. "WTF" I thought. Rebooted router. Everything satisfactory. Still no access.

For some reason, I decided to unplug the main trunk from the router's switch - suddenly it all came to life. Merely having the Linksys connected to the LAN now farks EVERYTHING up. So I'm ghettorigged out of 2 Farallons and out a fairly new $100 rackmount switch.

A Cisco XL2924 is on order. $300. Not happy.
 
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PowerMac4Ever

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Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Originally posted by: PowerMac4Ever
uhh....
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1-800-GEICO ..make sure you mention that the "King of all that is Gesse" reffered you so you get 15.0000001% savings
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My "uhh" was actually referring to douchebag op's post. But I thank you for looking out for me.
 
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Bootprint

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Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Originally posted by: PowerMac4Ever
uhh....
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1-800-GEICO ..make sure you mention that the "King of all that is Gesse" reffered you so you get 15.0000001% savings
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OMG, OMG Thanks for that insider info.

 
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Hoober

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Originally posted by: EyeMWing
I was running a string of red CAT5 across the house (voice phone) to connect to my office. I doubled it into the bundles with the ethernet CAT5, so it came into my office rackspace. While I was threading it from there into the wall, I bumped the main switch (Linksys EF3116 rackmount) and took out it's power connection (somehow). I didn't notice for a good few minutes. I also noticed that I had absentmindedly wrapped the voice wire around the CAT5 bundle, thus giving it an unclean look and tugging on my ethernet cables. Since the voice line was already in the wall, I just unplugged all 16 network cables and pulled them out of that situation. As I reconnected things, I noticed that no matter what I connected to ports 7, 8, 15 and 16, the lights for those ports wouldn't come on. Four ports just DIED. I grabbed a spare Farallon 8+1-port portable and rigged that appropriately.

After everything was reconnected and I was ready to go order a Cisco to replace this behemoth, I found out that for some reason I wasn't getting a DHCP lease. Grabbed the laptop, checked things out at the router-area switch. No go there. "WTF" I thought. Rebooted router. Everything satisfactory. Still no access.

For some reason, I decided to unplug the main trunk from the router's switch - suddenly it all came to life. Merely having the Linksys connected to the LAN now farks EVERYTHING up. So I'm ghettorigged out of 2 Farallons and out a fairly new $100 rackmount switch.

A Cisco XL2924 is on order. $300. Not happy.
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After my last Linksys router died for no apparent reason, I refuse to buy anything with their name on it. I was particularly unhappy when Vonage sent me a Linksys router as their VOIP solution. Linksys is garbage.

 
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