Re: Linux LAN probs - a shaggy dog story?
I'm going to make a bold suggestion here, and that is that no one has had (or has) as
strange a lan problem as I. But here's what I've learned so far. When I was losing pings
on one of my machines it was a result of the cable running along a wall with electrical
cables. Simply moving the network cable to the side fixed the problem. As far as the NT
box goes, I don't trust the windows ping utility at all, so go by what the linux boxes are
telling you. Also, if these are dual booting machines try booting them with a hard reboot
when entering linux. I don't think this problem exists for the newer kernels, but I used
to need to to that on 2.0. Make sure everything is in half duplex, even if your network
is setup in full, I'm pretty sure half will work on full, but not vice versa.
Btw, if you want to get involved in a nightmare, tell me why the only way I can get the
net connection to my room working is to use this ONE SPECIFIC CABLE COMBINATION!! All the
cables are straight through and work everywhere else. But for some reason, although I get
a link, no packets go through with anything other than short yellow in the basement and
big yellow up here.... ugh
-Aaron Solochek
leko@cmu.edu
Leen Besselink wrote:
> yeah... maybe something like half dublex - full duplex...
> but then again... mostly this causes no connection at all...
> I dunno... maybe it's a bad cable. It very much sounds like hardware to
> me. Although a bad driver could be the cause. What kind of card is it ?
>
> On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
>
> > This sounds more like a hardware problem than a config problem because _some_ of your
> > pings are making it through. If it were a config problem I would expect you to get
> > _no_ ping responses.
> >
> > Patrick Kirk wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I have two working Linux boxes now. cat has IP 10.0.0.1 and dog has
> > > 10.0.0.2. When I reboot cat it can ping dog but reports over 50% losses.
> > > Likewise dog and ping cat with close on 50% losses.
> > >
> > > If I tru to telnet from dog to cat, I get the cat login prompt and then the
> > > system freezes as I enter a username.
> > >
> > > >From that point neither machine can ping the other.
> > >
> > > I also have a NT box. If I put it on instead of dog, cat can ping NTbox.
> > > But NTbox cannot ping cat. Request times out.
> > >
> > > cat is my default gateway to the Internet, tho obviously is as useful as a
> > > chocolate teapot right now.
> > >
> > > Can anyone see what I'm doing wrong?
> > >
> > > IDEA: is it an ipmasq problem?
> > >
> > > Patrick
> > >
> > > Wise Chinese Proverb: "If tired of computer winning at chess, try it at
> > > kick-boxing instead"
> > >
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> >
> >
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