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- A hardware question!
We've been asked to perform some work on a "mature" W2000 server. The box is a Compaq Prolinea and has an onboard NIC. The external connection looks for all the world like a conventional RJ45 10/100 LAN socket.
Therefore we assigned the server an available TCP/IP address for our LAN and plugged the box up directly to our office hub using a conventional 10/100 CAT5 cable. This cable and this configuration has always worked for all other 'visiting' boxes.
In short the Compaq apparently won't communicate with our LAN; this is evidenced by the lack of heartbeat LED activity on the RJ45 hub socket. Furthermore, although the Compaq can ping its own TCP/IP address fine, it can't be pinged from anywhere else on the LAN.
A little Googling reveals this onboard NIC supports 2 different LAN protocols, and we're wondering if anyone can verify which of the following acronyms would most likely be the one used by our very conventional CAT5 office LAN:
[A] 10Base-T or 10 Base-2
10/100 Base-TX
The box is currently set to option and apparently this is its factory default setting.