Re: Cannot make a pair of switches communicate

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Trojan Hussar <(E-Mail Removed)> writes
>I have an office at the bottom of the garden 60ft from the house. The
>plan has always been to put a wired connection between the switch in
>the house (generic 8 port 10/100 switch) and the office (Intel 510T 24
>port 10/100). I've been working with a rather flaky 802.11b wireless
>bridge for a couple of years and recently upgraded to a 802.11g bridge
>which turned out to be even worse!
>
>Lost my rag today after numerous failed connections and took a long
>length of CAT5e and ran a cable out of the office up the side of the
>house and in to the home switch.
>
>Initially I cabled it as a straight through cable, plugged the tester
>in and all eight LEDs lit so the connections appeared to be fine.
>Plugged it into both switches and both registered as a full duplex
>100Mbps connection, the activity light was flickering frantically so I
>tried to ping clients at the other end of the connection... nothing...
>All the clients on the home switch can see each other, all the clients
>on the office switch with fixed IPs can see each other (the firewall
>in the house provides DHCP to the whole network) DHCP clients cannot
>get an address. But the home and office switches do not seem to be
>communicating?
>
>I tried rewiring the cable as a crossover and exactly the same, the
>lights on both switches are on, but no data seems to be passing
>between them.
>
>I've even swapped the switches around, put an old Netgear FS105 (5
>port 10/100) into the house and moved the generic 8 port down to the
>office, but no joy.
>
>The cable tester seems to give the impression the cable is wired
>correctly, but it just doesn't work...
>
>HELP!
>
>Regards,
>TH.


Are the two set of machine on the same subnet?

Run ipconfig/all on a PC in each area to check.


Don C