Alright, after playing around some more.. I have discovered that non-Debian distros work as the workstation. Linux BBC (bootable business card) worked fine, as did Mandrake. BBC used kernel 2.4.5-xfs.. any ideas what might be wrong?
Monday, October 7, 2002, 12:39:40 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (debian-user) wrote: Jeff> Ed McMan, 2002-Oct-06 19:22 -0400: Jeff> <snip> >> >> Here is the weird part. This computer works fine using the same >> configuration in Windows. All the other computers work fine too. I >> have been trying to figure out what the problem is, so I did some >> packet sniffing with ethereal on the router. >> >> I listened for any packets going to or from the debian machine in >> question. I ran ping (some host on the internet) and let it sit. The >> first two pings went through, and then it stopped. The *really* weird >> part is that the machine stopped sending the pings! Well, the router >> wasn't receiving them anyway. Another oddity is that running >> /etc/init.d/networking restart on the workstation would fix the problem, for a few >more >> packets. After letting ping sit, another ping would go through about >> every five minutes. Jeff> This is weird. A few thoughts... Jeff> - are there firewall rules on the router that might be limiting ICMP? Jeff> - could system be on a bad switch port? or patch cable? Jeff> - are there errors being generated on the eth1 interface, Jeff> e.g. ifconfig eth1 ? perhaps a bad NIC? --------------------------------------------------------------- | Eddie J Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.m00.net | | AIM: The Cypher ICQ: 35576339 YHOO: edmcman2 MSN:edmcman@^ | | "We Trills have an expression--at forty, you think you | | know everything. At four hundred, you realize you know | | nothing." - Dax, Star Trek Deep Space 9 | --------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
