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Can't use switch with Router
The C6300 has 4 LAN ports, but I need twice that many. When I connect a switch, the C6300 appears only DHCP one IP address per port, leaving the rest of the switch ports dead. Is there a way around t...
Not sure what switches your using. Sounds like the ones you have are either faulty or you have bad cabling. Most any gateway modems only come with 4 LAN ports. Most modems you get support having a external LAN switch connected. From 5 ports all the way up to 48. Yours as well.
You might find a local computer shop to help out and see if they can help you get a proper Gb LAN switch connected.
Good Luck.
jfklfjg wrote:I returned the last switch I tried, so at the moment I don't any switches, except for one mystery unit that totally unmarked. I would have to go buy another to do more experiments. I am leaning toward sending this cable modem to the recycler and buying another with more LAN ports.
Out of the three switches I tried, they all had the same behaviour. The first item plugged connects to the wider network. Anything else connected to a port of the switch afterwards does not. If I have to supply a particular model number at this point, then I will have to go buy another switch. I got rid of anything that didn't work.
The C6300 is a cable modem with four LAN ethernet ports and WiFi. No idea what you mean by "configured."
"Connect" means that one of the ports on the switch is connected to one of the ports on the cable modem. Is there another choice?
I am using cables that are about three feet long. The pretty green lights come on at both ends, with occassional blinking even on ports that just spin their wheels and don't connect.
Why not give model # of what you have? Would be helpful. It's nothing private to be concerned about. Ther maybe a mis-configuration.
Just tring to help here. I know my C7800 has had switches behing it. No issues.
I've had a few switches connected to my c7800 series modem. Zero issues.
Good Luck though.
I returned the last switch I tried, so at the moment I don't any switches, except for one mystery unit that totally unmarked. I would have to go buy another to do more experiments. I am leaning toward sending this cable modem to the recycler and buying another with more LAN ports.
Not sure what switches your using. Sounds like the ones you have are either faulty or you have bad cabling. Most any gateway modems only come with 4 LAN ports. Most modems you get support having a external LAN switch connected. From 5 ports all the way up to 48. Yours as well.
You might find a local computer shop to help out and see if they can help you get a proper Gb LAN switch connected.
Good Luck.
jfklfjg wrote:I returned the last switch I tried, so at the moment I don't any switches, except for one mystery unit that totally unmarked. I would have to go buy another to do more experiments. I am leaning toward sending this cable modem to the recycler and buying another with more LAN ports.