[PLUG] Re: Networking Gremlins

[Brad Calvert]

Yeah obvious is right.  that's the first thing I checked, I swapped the
cable.  then I took down my eth0 (external) and swapped eth1 to my external
IP address and stuff (eth1 works for sure, I could ping my internal
computers from it) and I still could not get to the outside.   I have tried
everything I can possibly think of and nothing works.


"patrick.t.finnegan.1" <finnegpt@purdue.edu> wrote in message
news:mailman.1001983743.22698.plug@csociety.purdue.edu...
> On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Brad Calvert wrote:
>
> > Please help?  Anyone?
> >
> > when I run TCPDUMP, nothing comes up and in ifconfig theres like 300000
> > dropped packets.  I cant figure it out... it should be recieving
something,
> > the lights are flashing like mad.  but RX and TX are both 0.
> >
> > Someone has to have an idea.
> > Brad
>
> I know it sounds obvious, but check that the network cable is still good.
> You also may want to try using a different network card - the problem is
> much more likely to be a hardware problem than a software thing.
>
> -- Pat
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