yeah... maybe something like half dublex - full duplex... but then again... mostly this causes no connection at all... I dunno... maybe it's a bad cable. It very much sounds like hardware to me. Although a bad driver could be the cause. What kind of card is it ?
On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > This sounds more like a hardware problem than a config problem because _some_ > of your > pings are making it through. If it were a config problem I would expect you > to get > _no_ ping responses. > > Patrick Kirk wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I have two working Linux boxes now. cat has IP 10.0.0.1 and dog has > > 10.0.0.2. When I reboot cat it can ping dog but reports over 50% losses. > > Likewise dog and ping cat with close on 50% losses. > > > > If I tru to telnet from dog to cat, I get the cat login prompt and then the > > system freezes as I enter a username. > > > > >From that point neither machine can ping the other. > > > > I also have a NT box. If I put it on instead of dog, cat can ping NTbox. > > But NTbox cannot ping cat. Request times out. > > > > cat is my default gateway to the Internet, tho obviously is as useful as a > > chocolate teapot right now. > > > > Can anyone see what I'm doing wrong? > > > > IDEA: is it an ipmasq problem? > > > > Patrick > > > > Wise Chinese Proverb: "If tired of computer winning at chess, try it at > > kick-boxing instead" > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > -- > Jens B. Jorgensen > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >