From: Sam.MicroGate@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri May 03 2002 - 14:28:34 GMT-3
A good practice if you have a communication problem between 2 hosts is to
start your trouble shooting by pinging a host in a deferent subnet and then
you go from there. If the ping fails, then you go from 1 to 7. If it is
successful you start to check the configuration of these particular two
hosts. However, there is no one technique that govern the troubleshooting
process. Each case has its unique strategy.
Sam
-----Original Message-----
From: thomas larus [mailto:tlarus@mwc.edu]
Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 4:30 PM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: My home lab motto: "It's always a cabling problem"
I can't be the only one here who has noticed that when something is not
working right in the study lab, it is often a cabling problem. If it's not
that, it's probably an IP addressing mistake (a fat finger error).
Remembering this motto can save one a lot of troubleshooting time in the
home lab. It also happens to fit nicely into the "start at the physical
layer first" model of troubleshooting, except that you go directly from
checking your cables (layer 1) to checking your ip addresses (layer 3),
skipping layer two troubleshooting temporarily.
Anyone else here feel the same way?
Tom
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