[SC.LUG] networking for idiots

[Robert Marshall]

Andy,

Must be something about the name - I have a book signed by the author for
me with the inscription 'to Robert with kind Roberts'

Thanks for those comments - I probably get my daughter to collect one for
me when she returns to Mcr Univ.

Robert

On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, Andy Roffe wrote:

> Ahem, Sorry, should have been "Robert," It's been one of those weeks.
> 
> -a
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Roffe 
> Sent: 09 April 2005 11:44
> To: sc at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Subject: RE: [SC.LUG] networking for idiots
> 
> 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