Odd tcp/ip behavior.

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Pete

I have a number of machines behind a router which they all use as a
gateway. when you use traceroute, you can traceroute from one machine
to another and the route is direct machine to machine.
all the machines are on the same subnet.

however..

when the router is switched off or fails, the machines run slow and can
no longer see each others mapped drives and other resources.

anyone any ideas ?

Cheers

Pete.
 
I have a number of machines behind a router which they all use as
a gateway. when you use traceroute, you can traceroute from one
machine to another and the route is direct machine to machine.
all the machines are on the same subnet.

however..

when the router is switched off or fails, the machines run slow
and can no longer see each others mapped drives and other
resources.

anyone any ideas ?
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Most home cable/DSL routers actually contain a router and a switch/hub
combined in one unit. When you turn off the router, you also turn off
the switch/hub and the computers lose connectivity.

HTH,
John
 
John said:
Most home cable/DSL routers actually contain a router and a switch/hub
combined in one unit. When you turn off the router, you also turn off
the switch/hub and the computers lose connectivity.

HTH,
John
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the Hub and router are 2 seperate units.

Pete.
 
the Hub and router are 2 seperate units.

Pete.
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Depending on how your network is setup you will expierence this if you
use the hub to run your network and mapped drives and only use the
router to see the internet (gateway) you will have full access to your
network.
If you are using the router as a hub as well anything connected to the
router will lose connection when the router is shut off because you lose
power to that part of the switch/hub.
 
|>I have a number of machines behind a router which they all use as a
|>gateway. when you use traceroute, you can traceroute from one machine
|>to another and the route is direct machine to machine.
|>all the machines are on the same subnet.

The trace shouldn't show a route if the clients are on the same
subnet.

|>however..
|>
|>when the router is switched off or fails, the machines run slow and can
|>no longer see each others mapped drives and other resources.
|>
|>anyone any ideas ?
|>
|>Cheers
|>
|>Pete.

Is the router acting as a DHCP server or are your clients statically
assigned their IP addresses?
 
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