I've noticed a difference between the SMC NIC and the Microsoft MN-130 NIC.
When the computer is off and the cable is connected to the SMC card the
light on the router is off. When connected to the MN-130 the light is on
even though the computer is off. That's the same thing I see at the MN-150
switch where two computers are connected with crossover cables left from
before I got the switch and I connected 2 computers at a time. The manual
for the switch says it doesn't matter whether a cable is straight-through or
crossover and sure enough the network works perfectly. I'm convinced if I
connected the MN-130 to the router with a crossover cable it would work
perfectly, but I don't feel like rewiring to verify it.
"John Marion" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:053601c4ee94$1a7c22d0$(E-Mail Removed)...
> I'm on a network with four computers connected through a
> Belkin router/switch and a Microsoft switch. This
> computer has two NICs from the time it hosted ICS. When
> this computer is connected to the router via its SMC NIC,
> everything is perfect and the other three computers show
> up by name with computer icons. If I plug the ethernet
> cable into the MN-130 Microsoft NIC, everything still
> works, but the other computers become unknown devices
> listed by IP address. Why should there be a difference
> when everything works?
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