Conference netcad::hub_mgnt

2254.0. "Factory Reset on DR900FP?" by ALBANY::BARTLEY () Mon May 08 1995 09:58

    I have a customer using a DECrepeater 900FP standalone. It's setup
    to use ports 1-6 on LAN1 and port s 7-12 on LAN2. The LANs are bridged
    together in their computer room. The problem is we can't ping the
    repeater from anywhere on the net. I've gone out and attached my 
    laptop to the AUI connector and I can't ping it either. We've examined
    the current settings through the setup port and reset the ip address
    and community string and still nothing.
    
    I came back to the office the try this out on a DR900FP here. To start
    out fresh, using the repeater menu, I did a factory reset. This
    appeared to lump all ports onto the Thinwire segment. I did something
    to it after that with HUBwatch (I have forgotten now what I did), and
    decided to do another factory reset on the DR900FP. This produced 
    different results. I could not reach the repeater from the thinwire
    segment at all.
    
    I should mention that both repeaters are at V1.1.
    
    What should a factory reset do with all the segments?
    
    Thanks,
    
    Dave
    

    I'll have to leave it up to the repeater engineers to say what is
    supposed to happen in a factory reset, but it sounds like your basic
    problem is that you cannot use HUBwatch to put the "MAC" into one of
    your 2 Groups.
    
    The MAC is the repeater's Ethernet interface; you have to put it into
    one of the 2 Groups that you have actively connected to some LAN. Of 
    course, since you can't Ping it, you can't talk to it with HUBwatch
    either. However, I would have thought that a Factory Reset would put 
    the MAC on the ThinWire along with all 12 ports.
    
    Any idea how they originally separated the ports into 2 groups?

    Yes. I seperated the the ports into two groups using HUBwatch. At the
    time I didn't know what the MAC port was. I don't remember which group
    I left it on.
    
    
    Dave