Can ping myself by name, network ip, or as localhost but ping attempts to other boxes hang. An ifconfig -a shows the nic up and running, with 0 RX packet errors and 1311 TX packet errors. A netstat -rn shows two entries, one for my class c network and one for my gateway which is win xp.
destination gateway genmask flags iface
192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U eth0 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG eth0
Here's what happened next: # as root of course - manually copying from the console
ifconfig eth0 down rmmod tulip # using this driver for my netgear fs310tx nic modprobe tulip /etc/rc.d/networking restart bash: /etc/rc.d/networking: No such file or directory route add gw 192.168.0.1 gw: host name lookup failure ping 192.168.0.1 ping: sendto: network is unreachable
The light for this nic on my switch was on and blinking so I removed it and reinserted; stopped blinking, went through the commands above again with similar results and then rebooted.
Everything is ok now.
Only I feel like an idiot. What happened and how did I fix it? Had a problem with this box's connection a few weeks ago too, which is how I knew the steps to try and recover. Any pointers on how I can educate myself to at least understand what I'm doing - not to mention get a clue about what problem is bringing my network down every couple weeks would be most gratefully accepted.
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