On January 29, 2006 10:58 pm, Bill Reid wrote this amazing epistle:
Mike Pfaiffer wrote:
So far with this experiment I've eliminated some possible problems. The cables should be fine. The port on the router is fine. The NIC is fine. Since it works with M$, the router is fine (although I have to check if it is limiting based on the DHCP address of the Linux box - I set up a static IP for the M$ side and won't let it have net access).
On Linux do an ifconfig and see if it reports errors or collisions.
-- Bill
Leaving out the first couple of lines which just give the IP addresses, here is what I get for eth0.
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:2382801 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:392797 TX packets:2108884 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:3298556584 (3145.7 Mb) TX bytes:144681015 (137.9 Mb) Interrupt:10 Base address:0xec00
I don't know if I should be running multicast. The MTU looks OK for dialup. I don't know if it's OK for a LAN. No idea what the metric is. Everything else looks as though it should be OK (although I may need to power down the router soon).
Later Mike