[Gllug] ifconfig - eth2 not "RUNNING"

[Garry Heaton]

Jon Nangle wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 03:03:03PM +0000, Garry Heaton wrote:
> 
>> [root at robinson ~]# ifconfig eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr
>> 00:14:6C:8B:75:97 inet addr:10.0.0.15  Bcast:10.0.0.255
>> Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::214:6cff:fe8b:7597/64 Scope:Link 
>> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1 RX packets:2173
>> errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:2279 errors:0
>> dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX
>> bytes:1550661 (1.4 MiB)  TX bytes:343890 (335.8 KiB) Interrupt:225 Base
>> address:0xa800
>> 
>> eth2      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:E0:81:5E:C1:41 inet
>> addr:192.168.1.254  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr:
>> fe80::2e0:81ff:fe5e:c141/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500
>> Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX
>> packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0
>> txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Interrupt:209
> 
> Silly question but do you have a link light on the card/switch? It 
> doesn't look like the driver is passing any packets up the stack.
> 
> Jon
> 

There were lights on actually but I had 2 Netgear cards next to one another
and one didn't seem to be initialising properly or the IRQs were wrong. I
pulled the card on eth2 out and enabled the Broadcom onboard LAN. All now works.

Garry
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