[KLUG Members] switches vs. hubs

Nikolas Reist members@kalamazoolinux.org
Thu, 01 Apr 2004 20:27:31 -0500


I am curious (only because you haven't stated it) does it have an uplink
port that is switched or non-switched?  Did you try power cycling the
switches?

On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 15:34, bill wrote:
> I'm having trouble getting DHCP to go through a second switch.
> 
> I have a DHCP server on a first switch, the two switches are connected.
> 
> Machines on the second switch can't get an IP address.
> 
> However, if I swap the second switch with a hub (a wireless hub, with 
> DHCP disabled, actually), I can get IP addresses no problem.
> 
> Easy solution, replace the switch.  Already done that, twice.  Is there 
> some sort of difference as far as DHCP between hubs and switches that 
> I'm overlooking?
> 
> kind regards,
> 
> bill hollett
> 
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