switches and traffic and stuff

[billb]

I have a server that was going into a gigabit switch but the only spare port on that switch has gone down. I have plugged it into a 10/100 one that is next door that has lots of pc's in it too but every so often it blue screens. If you take the network cable out of the switch it works fine ( but obviousely not on the network ).

question is is it the server thats buggered or the switch? surely just plugging into a 10/100 switch shouldnt do this. the server has a gigabit net card but its set to auto sensing so should be ok on the slower link?

any ideas?

[squirrelz]

Try manually setting it to 100Mbit/FD ???

[billb]

squirrelz said:

Try manually setting it to 100Mbit/FD ???

i did with the same result

[agent006]

Try updating the drivers for the network card, maybe a bug in it somewhere.

[stuuu]

Could be an issue with the switch, NIC or machine OS.

If the switch is managed, I'd stick the most up to date OS on it. Also check for NIC driver updates.

Also just to be extra anal, swap out the cable. Its the most likely thing to go!

[TommoFocus]

Definately sounds like a problem with the computer, could be a driver or it could be memory. What OS is it running? If your running Windows, run up Perfmon and get it to log details of memory being used and processor usage, that way you might see that as it approaches 234.1MB it falls over each time.

[Marshy]

I'd be *very* surprised if it was the switch itself or the cable causing the machine to blue screen.

Would suspect machine first, particularly network card drivers, not switch or associated hardware.