On Sun, Aug 29, 2010, Omer Zak wrote about "[Fwd: Re: Can there be an Ethernet Switch that doesn't work with Linux???]": > Nadav, > Did you see the following question? > I saw no report of tests due to the question. >... > > Do the replies to the DHCP and ARP broadcasts of the MS-Windows computer > get forwarded to it by the switch? > If yes, are they formatted any differently from those of the Linux > machine?
Hi Omer, I did not yet have time to do more tests (I can't test my home network while at work ;-)), and frankly, I spent so much time on this already, that I'm inclined to just buy a new switch (this time I'll look for a 1 Gbps switch... any recommendations?) and lose the 90 shekels I paid for that one. In any case, you are right, I can inspect the DHCP (or ARP) requests and responses and see what, if anything, is different between what Windows and Linux is doing. But from all the comments I've been getting, it appears more likely that the problem is not layer 2 (the different kernels on the two machines, one Windows and one Linux) but rather layer 1 (in the different NICS) - my current unconfirmed guess is that the switch *does* try to forward these packets to the my computer, but botch up something in the transfer. I have a few ideas on how to test this hypothesis, but again, I'm inclined to just throw this switch into my "museum" (I may need it 10 years from now :-)) and buy a new one... I see I can buy a TP-LINK TL-SF1008D for 65 shekels (!) - any comments on that? -- Nadav Har'El | Sunday, Aug 29 2010, 19 Elul 5770 n...@math.technion.ac.il |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |When everything's coming your way, you're http://nadav.harel.org.il |in the wrong lane. _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
