Sweet. Glad to hear.  I was suspecting that being the cause, hence the reason I asked if the switch was connected to the Internet. Probably conflicting with another host. 169.254.x.x is routable on the Internet.  Disconnecting from the Internet and r...

Strange that the VLAN 20 machine reports destination unreachable in the first attempt, I was expecting it to at least hit its default gateway (192.168.2.100) before any failure. Similar to the machine on VLAN 30.  Is this switch connected to the Inte...

Thanks for your response Reza, but based on the link below, ingress queuing and scheduling is not supported on the 2960-x switches. See note under section "Actions at Ingress Port"  http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/lan/catalyst2960x/sof...

Thanks Reza Table 2 list 4 output/egress queues. But no mention of ingress queue/s Below shows the output of a 'sh interface' of a particular port Input queue: 0/75/0/0 (size/max/drops/flushes); Total output drops: 0 Queueing strategy: fifo Output q...

Does the VLAN 20 workstation have a default-gateway configured? Can you show the ipconfig output of both Windows 7 machine from MS-DOS? Also, can you post the output of a tracert from the VLAN 30 workstation trying to ping the VLAN 20 workstation and...