I have various network management software that I use to check
versions of
patches, software, and so forth.  I run this on an XP PRO box, Pentium
II 200.

Have seen following strange ARP reply from one of the switch in the
LAN.
1. the reply is sent via broadcast instead of unicast???
2. the send's protocol address is equal to the target's protocol

To all,
Anyone have ideas on the best network port speed configuration.
My company using a numbers of BayStack 350/450 and Passport 1200.
I set all the ports to AutoNegotation and work fine over the past 3 years.

Are the Cisco Aironet access points affected by a recent IOS bug? If
they are, should the IOS be upgraded or is it better to lock the AP
using the ACL's?
TJP

How does one tell an application such as Real Player, Media Player,
etc, to play a multicast stream? We currently have a multicast stream
(Mpeg) flowing across the network that is converted to A/V by a
hardware device sitting on one of the switch ports, but I'm trying to

I am having some doubts regarding ethernet switch and looking for
suggestions to solve the problem.
I will just explain my problem in brief.
On the egress side of an ethernet switch, we are having buffers. The

Where have all the FX Switches gone. If I have a completely fibered
environment is there any 4,8,12 port 100Base-FX commodity switches
around?
ScumbagAdie

I have a switch configured with VLANs named VLAN1 and VLAN2. Ports are
assigned to each as the network design required. We truly intend to keep
these as two individual and separated LANs.
The problem is that one of the VLANs works perfectly, and the other not

I have a Toshiba WRC 1000 router and 4 PCs
connected to it in my home.  The other day,
two of the PCs are not able to connect to
the Internet at all.  I am using a cable

First off - I hope this is the correct group for my question. If not,
I'd be happy if you directed me to the right one. Thanks.
I'd need a bit help with crimping twisted pair cables. I know this is
explained on many web sites - but obviously I am too dumb for this

I have an interesting question.  If you were to get a project to
connect 2 [100TX devices] every 500 feet for 110 miles, how exactly
would you do it?
The devices can only connect into 100TX ports, no 100FX ports

I want to know how switching takes place based on VLAN Tags.If any one
can point me  to some doc  and give this info that would be
appreciated.
I am looking for  detailed info, with regard to frame processing

I've made a simple 10BaseT transmitter/receiver fitted into an Xilinx FPGA,
with the code written in VHDL. It implements ARP and ICMP ping. When
connected directly to a Windows or Linux computer using a crossover cable it
works fine, and can be pinged successfully. (it has a ...

What is HP J2418A Ethertwist Lanswitch?
I have one of these, but Google and HP won't cough up any dock on what the
specs are. Anybody know?
I suspect 10mbs only, and all ports are switched, some sort of management

I have a Mac and PC on my desk and want to network them one to one. PC is
new with XP Home and 10/100 ethernet. Mac is running OS8.6 and has 10baseT
ethernet.
Can someone tell me how to get them talking to each other?