On Tuesday, March 22, 2005 11:43 AM Bob Chiodini wrote: > >Shawn, > >I've been following this thread, I hope. Maybe there is a hardware >problem with the Linksys or your NIC (or an incompatibility between >them). Does you FC3 box behave the same regardless of the port it is >connected to on the Linksys? Also, does ethereal reveal anything >unusual? The BEFSR11 has only one LAN port, unfortunately. Ethereal shows duplicate ACKs outbound and out of order packets inbound but nothing else unusual. > >Another thing to try: Plug the cable modem into one of the >LAN ports on >the Linksys and restart networking on the FC3 box. You'll >lose routing, >any Linksys firewalling and NAT, but it should be okay for a short >test. > >I've never dissected a Linksys router, but in the dlink each pair of >switch ports share common PHY chips. I have an old dlink with two bad >switch ports due to a lightning strike. One of the ports was unused >before the strike. The other two ports and the WAN port are fine. > >All that said and rereading your other posts: Your problem might point >to the NIC in the FC3 box since the same wiring and port work okay on >your XP box. I assume it is a different machine. > I would agree with you with one exception: so far no matter what I put as a NIC in the server, the same problem manifests itself. Furthermore, the same NIC when installed in the XP box works great. I believe that the problem is a combination of Fedora being compliant with networking standards (which really isn't a problem) and the Linksys not being compliant is some subtle way. As Rick Stevens pointed out in an earlier posting, XP contains hacks to circumvent issues perhaps like this one. I just can't seem to put my finger on the exact cause at this point. -- Shawn
