[SC.LUG] networking for idiots

[Andy Roffe]

Roberts,

If it helps, I recall having a similar problem with rtl based NICs in a box running Mandrake. I never found the actual culprit but the fix was using a hub. One of the NIC's involved steadfastly refused to operate with a xover cable although everything looked good. Nic lit up ok. 

I also once had a box that refused to work on the network unless a cable was
present at boot. Although again everything seemed perfect, just no traffic. 

I put these down to driver/distro anomalies that are a rare fact of life on
Linux. That's not a criticism  just an observation and preferable to the sort of network/driver nonsense that happened regularly back in my NT Server days.

Good luck,
Andy Roffe 

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Marshall [mailto:robert at chezmarshall.freeserve.co.uk] 
Sent: 09 April 2005 08:20
To: South Cheshire GNU/Linux Users
Subject: Re: [SC.LUG] networking for idiots

On Fri, 08 Apr 2005, Ewan Leith wrote:

> 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
> 

Though I doubt if this (or a router) would fix the problem there'll still
be basically the same hardware with that addition, I think there must be
some sort of s/w configuration issue that I'm missing that's causing all
the errors?

Robert
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Robert Marshall

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