From: Ellen K. 

That's good to know, thanks.   :)

They also changed something on the box to make it not a trunk something.

However, I set my ping script running from two different desktops yesterday
afternoon and both are still showing lost packets.

On Thu, 3 Jun 2004 06:05:52 -0400, "Geo." 
wrote in message :

>"Ellen K"  wrote in message
>news:0096c8.c3095c{at}harborwebs.com...
>> Most of the below is stuff I don't know anything about, but do the following
>> two points cover it or is the "layer 3 switch" part the
critical thing?
>>
>> 1.  The problem is with a W2K server, although we do have a number of Novell
>> servers also.
>>
>> 2.  The box turned out to have THREE NICs, they have now removed the two
>> 10/100's and set the gigabit one to manually negotiate at 1000 full duplex.
>
>that makes a lot of sense, multiple nics on the same network can cause some
>really weird effects depending on if they can see each other or not.
>
>Geo.
>

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