Re: [PLUG] network/server troubleshoot

On 10/14/07, Eric <eric@lucii.org > wrote:

Brent:

Agreed - It's not the hardware.  I [strongly] suspect - it's the driver which is
part of the kernel software.  That's why, as you point out, it works after
bringing it down and then up.  At least that's what I figure at this point.
After the NIC swap I'll have more feedback :-)

Thanks,
Eric

Brent Saner wrote:
> just to offer my (possibly worthless) $.02:
>
> it is my understanding that if it was HARDWARE related (the actual
> NIC(s)), then you would not be able to bring them down and then bring
> them back up again .
> since, from a cursory read, it seems you are able to do this then i'd
> have to guess it's either software or service provider
>
> On 10/14/07, * Eric* < eric@lucii.org <mailto:eric@lucii.org>> wrote:
>
>     James:
>
>     I had not seen these results before but they, like the other results
>     I've seen,
>     strongly indicate the tulip driver.  I'll have to figure out which
>     NIC has the
>     tulip driver and deep-6 it.  Now I'm convinced this has the highest
>     probability
>     of being the answer.
>
>     Thanks!
>
>     Eric
>
>     James Barrett wrote:
>     > What is the model of your NIC?  Blacklist the tulip kernel module
>     and use the
>     > dmfe module.  Some google results ('tulip_stop_rxtx eth') seem to
>     point to
>     > that being a problem, particularly these two results:
>     >
>     > http://www.suseforums.net/index.php?showtopic=18730
>     >
>     http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/can-ping-router-but-cant-connect-to-it-nor-internet-451918/
>     >
>     > HTH
>
>
>
> --------CUT---------

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