From: Angus D Madden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: Angus D Madden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: 3c905c arp/configuration problems
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 23:32:12 -0500
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 12:26:44PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Does the connect light come up on the NIC in the client? The NIC in the
gateway?
>
all lights are on, including the lights on the switch.
> Thus traffic send from gateway to client doesnot get through.
>
yes.
> Because the who-has, is-at handshake fails.
>
> Most probably I would pin this down to a broken cable line between the
gateway and the client somewhere. Either a broken twisted pair in one of
your cat-5 cables, a broken pin in one of your NICS or a dry solder joint
creating a broken connection in a NIC. I've had this *exact* connundrum
before and it turned out to be hardware (in my case it was the port I was
using on the switch which was dead, and another port worked fine).
Basically all the traffic is one way. The client can talk to the gateway
but the gateway cant talk to the client.
>
> It maybe the vortex, because they've had lots of problems with HP
changing the spec's on them and breaking the OSS drivers. Theres a page by
the guy that wrote the original driver explaining the hassles.
>
I have tried two different cables and all the ports on the switch. The
only thing left would be the NIC itself, which was working fienn
yesterday. If all else fails I'll buy a new NIC.
> First time I had this prob it took me weeks. Then when I changed the
switch port and it all worked I spent a week banging my head against my
desk :)
>
> Kind Regards
> Crispin Wellington
>
thanks. my head is fully prepared for banging.
g
<< attach3 >>
Have you watched for error messages from the card on boot-up? I had a 905C
get a screwy ROM. The card would work for about a 3 minutes, then die. I
could logon immediately, start the transfer of a large file, and watch the
lights blink fast, then see them blink slower and slower then after maybe 1
minute or so, it would completely stop. When the card was first initialized
it mentioned a checksum failure of somesort. The damn thing had worked fine
for months, then I added a tape drive to the box, (never touched the NIC,
except to yank the cable from the back) and when I tried to plug it back
into the network later that day...........
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