I recently purchased a used USR total control modem rack with 12 Quad Modem cards, 1 T1 card, redundent PS modules, and one NMC / NIC interface module. The problem is that I can not communicate with the NMC in any shape or form and would like some advice.
I checked my Bay Networks managed switch that the NIC plugs into for a MAC address on startup but there was none for the total control rack. I can tell that it is recieving broadcasts on that port but the rack is not transmitting anything back to the switch. The NMC passes the POST and I get a 10BaseT connection (layer 1) on the switch, but that is about it. I don't believe it is getting any layer 2 or higher information back out of it.
Soooo.. My thoughts are that the NIC is bad, but could it be a switch setting on the Management module that could do this? or something else?
I checked my Bay Networks managed switch that the NIC plugs into for a MAC address on startup but there was none for the total control rack. I can tell that it is recieving broadcasts on that port but the rack is not transmitting anything back to the switch. The NMC passes the POST and I get a 10BaseT connection (layer 1) on the switch, but that is about it. I don't believe it is getting any layer 2 or higher information back out of it.
Soooo.. My thoughts are that the NIC is bad, but could it be a switch setting on the Management module that could do this? or something else?