Hi,
I would not expect you to be able to see much with
ethereal.
If the switch just stops forwarding data on the network,
you would see nothing in the trace.
Is it only the uplink that blocks or is connectivity lost
between all ports on the switch ?
If all ports ar blocked, you probably have an internal
fault in the switch.
Hi
there
Hope some kind soul
out there can help or point me in the right direction.
For the last month
or so our users have experienced a network failure about once per week.
Rebooting the main 48 port unmanaged switch (netgear) resolves the
problem.
I would like to
inspect what's going on at the switch to try and get to the bottom of the
failure. I've downloaded and installed ethereal, however, I have no idea
what I should be looking for in the log files. Can anyone
help?
At present we have
our W2K servers running on a copper gigabit switch, this switch is then
connected to the 48 port switch. Various other switches are downstream of
this switch.
I plan on hanging a
hub between a downstream switch and its uplink to the 48 port switch and then
using ethereal to analyse what's happening.
However, I've no
idea what I should be looking for! Can anyone help
please??
Thanks
BC
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