On Fri Apr 21 2000 at 16:21, Matthew McCleary wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am experiencing problems getting a D-Link 570E 4-port server NIC to work
> under Linux. I'm trying to install it under Red Hat 6.0.
>
> I have successfully ifup'd all four interfaces, eth0 through eth3. They
> each get assigned an IP just fine. The routing setup appears to work
> properly also.
>
> But when I do a route, the static routes show up but the defaults do not.
> route just hangs without displaying the default gateway(s).
That's because they are trying to do reverse lookups for the gateway
IP addresses. Do "route -n" or put something into your /etc/hosts
file to make the lookups work.
> I cannot see the network, period, on any interface.
Can you ping anything? Use IP addresses, not hostnames.
> Now for the peculiar behavior I've noticed. When I bring an interface up,
> the link/activity light goes a mile a minute on the NIC and on the hub,
> even when there is no network activity whatsoever. This happens on all
> four interfaces. ifconfig reports that no packets have been transmitted or
> received--so why are the activity lights doing this?
What does tcpdump on another box on their networks tell you?
> And for three seconds (about 6 packets) ping was able to see the gateway.
So the networking IS working. See?
> Then the pings stopped coming back and at the same time, the link light
> once again started blinking like crazy.
Sounds something like a routing loopback with the ethernet getting
flooded with packets. tcpdump is your friend.
> Now, this is very strange, and I am at a complete loss. Can anyone help me
> out here? This card has four 21143 chips and is essentially seen as four
> DEC Tulip cards. It's a very standard driver, if I'm not mistaken.
>
> What the heck is going on?
Sounds like misconfiguration to me, but it's hard to say without
actually being there :-)
Cheers
Tony
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