[SC.LUG] networking for idiots

[Ewan Leith]

One idea might be to just buy a cheap hub i suppose, microdirect do a 5 
port one for £10 or so - 
http://www.microdirect.co.uk/ProductInfo.aspx?ProductID=5667&GroupID=22

Ewan

Robert Marshall wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Robert Marshall wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Srdjan Todorovic wrote:
>>
>>
>>>What you've shown seems to be ok. Might be problem
>>>with
>>>lower part of the stack than IP. Have you got the
>>>Ethernet link lights on?
>>>
>>
>>ohh that's difficult to get to, one of them is integrated with the m/b
>>but and the other needs the table taking out...maybe I'll have to do some
>>digging!
>>
> 
> 
> Or a problem with the cable, I'd forgotten that there was a crossover
> adapter there when the cable was being used for eth0 which was still on
> eth0 (networking for idiots it is..[1]). So I now have a crossover cable on
> eth1 but it now doesn't work differently :-)
> 
> eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:08:A1:60:8E:1D  
>           inet addr:192.168.0.53  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>           inet6 addr: fe80::208:a1ff:fe60:8e1d/64 Scope:Link
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:39 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:124 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
>           RX bytes:3060 (2.9 Kb)  TX bytes:9858 (9.6 Kb)
>           Interrupt:5 Base address:0xd800 
> 
> Any clues?
> 
> Robert
> [1] wasn't someone trying to get rid of a router?