Re: "network cable unplugged"

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From: Bill Castner (bcastner_at_[spam)
Date: 05/01/04


Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 21:15:04 -0400

A not riskless way of dealing with this problem, a particularly
irksome one if your are using DHCP determined IPs for your
workstations, is to disable Media Sensing:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/Q239/9/24.ASP&NoWebContent=1

Best,
Bill Castner

On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 08:34:17 -0700, "ed" <rfrisch@optonline.net>
wrote:

>Problem with a local area network operating within
>telephone line through a network card. Intermittently,
>there is an network message "A network cable unplugged"
>and the network is down. I have check and replaced
>external cables to no avail. I manually reset IP
>addresses, which I thought helped for a while, but now
>problem is back even though I rechecked the IP addresses.
>There doesn't seem to be any explanations of this error
>message in the MS information base. Any suggestions
>would be appreciated.



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