Just what a Software geek loves to hear - its a hardware problem. ;-) Oh, wait a minute, its *my* hardware problem! *PANIC* =-O
Luckily, I do have some diagnostic equipment for the CAT 5... and "plug & pray" for the hub ports. Thanks, George. BTW, is there a RTFM of the "ip -s link" output somewhere? The google for "man ip" wasn't particularly helpful... At 15:45 2007-02-26, George Metz wrote: >Ken Gentle wrote: > ><snip!> > > > 4: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000 > > link/ether 00:0c:41:e9:34:dd brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff > > RX: bytes packets errors dropped overrun mcast > > 1152457833 11965659 79 0 0 0 > > TX: bytes packets errors dropped carrier collsns > > 0 0 11399780 0 11399778 0 > ><snip!> > > > Concerning me is the number of errors on eth1 - I'm wondering if I > > have similar duplex problems as Bob had. > >Nope, that's not a duplex issue. If it were, you'd be getting overruns >and collisions. > >What we've got here is, probably, a bad NIC, bad wire, or bad port on >the hub, or a bad hub in general. Notice that you've got zero transmit >packets, but nearly as many transmit errors as you do receive packets. >I'd try changing the cat 5 and the card, if you've got a spare; probably >not the hub, or if it is then it's probably just the port itself, so try >a different port too. > >George Metz > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT >Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your >opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash >http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user >Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/