On Thu, 18 May 2000, Donald Becker wrote:
> You should get the real error counts from /proc/net/dev.
At PC1: eth0 is university net, eth1 is our LAN
Inter-| Receive | Transmit
face |bytes packets errs drop fifo frame compressed multicast|bytes packets
errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed
lo: 255534 1048 0 0 0 0 0 0 255534 1048
0 0 0 0 0 0
dummy: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0
eth0: 4440898 24078 202 0 0 202 0 0 235915 2821
0 0 0 32 18 0
eth1: 215799 2517 0 889 0 1779 0 402 1384858 1991
0 0 0 0 0 0
At PC4:
Inter-| Receive | Transmit
face |bytes packets errs drop fifo frame compressed multicast|bytes packets
errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed
lo: 170524 1301 0 0 0 0 0 0 170524 1301
0 0 0 0 0 0
eth0: 48151 548 0 0 0 0 0 74 135424 504
1513 0 0 25721 1513 0
> > > >>> PCs 2 and 4 get aprox 95% loss when pinging enybody, even
> > > >>> themselves, even with just the T and two line terminators
> > > >>> (50 ohm).
> Oh, 10base2.
> OK, this is easy -- blame the cable.
But I tried ping 192.168.1.4 on PC4 (it's own ip addr) with no cable at
all, just the T and the line terminators. It didn't see itself. Same test
on PC1 was Ok.
> Today everyone should be using twisted pair. You never have the problem of
> "#1 can only talk to #4, #7 and #8".
You can't imagine how low our budget is. Anyway we (students) will buy the
hub and cables, etc. It's about U$S150.
Thank you,
Matias.
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