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Originally Posted by kpanchev
check the cables between the switches and the router, should be cross over, not straight trough
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Originally Posted by ITSABOUTTIME
Thanks kpanchev
I'm sorry, but what is the difference between a cross-over and a "trough"?
Thanks, D
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Sorry to be the spelling police, but in instances where incorrect spelling is causing confusion, it's better to step up and correct the mistake ...
the word is
THROUGH. A trough is something pigs eat out of.
The difference is between crossover cable and straight-through cable.
You use straight-through cable (also known as patch cable) for connecting a computer to a router, but if you're connecting two computers together (e.g. to share a network connection between them) then you would use a crossover cable. You would also use a crossover cable to connect two networking devices, such as the router/switch connection you are trying to make.
Newer networking devices can usually sense what sort of cable you have used and if you have used the 'wrong' one can adjust themselves to compensate, but that may or may not be the case here.
Whatever the exact fault is, if
none of your computers are getting an IP address, then the fault has got to lie somewhere in the part of the network that
all of them are connecting through. Try replacing the cable between the switch and the router first of all. It could be the wrong type or it could have been damaged when it was disconnected.