Re: unexplained network problems

2004-03-07 Thread Kevin Buhr
Marty Landman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I now see that the driver only writes information about transmission >> errors when its debug flag is set higher than the >>default. > > Where do you see that Kevin? And since I suspect an ongoing problem > would it make sense for me to change this to

Re: unexplained network problems

2004-03-06 Thread Marty Landman
At 02:11 PM 3/6/2004, Kevin Buhr wrote: Oh, I see you found the logs. Yes, except your explanation of the relationship between kernel and syslog is most welcome and educational so thanks, just finished reading it. BTW am I left to writing my own script if I wanted to grep the syslog for a certa

Re: unexplained network problems

2004-03-06 Thread Kevin Buhr
Marty Landman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > woody:~# more /var/log/kern.log | grep eth0 > Mar 4 09:11:41 woody kernel: eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 33 at > 0xe400, 00:A0:CC:40:3E:9B, IRQ 11. [ . . . ] Oh, I see you found the logs. Well, obviously the driver didn't write anything relevant to

Re: unexplained network problems

2004-03-06 Thread Kevin Buhr
Marty Landman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > so I could've just done > > %ifdown -a && ifup -a Yes, that would work. In fact, "ifdown eth0 && ifup eth0" would just restart the specific interface. The "-a" flag just means all interfaces flagged with "auto" in "/etc/network/interfaces". > A fast

Re: unexplained network problems

2004-03-05 Thread Marty Landman
At 05:51 PM 3/5/2004, Kevin Buhr wrote: The Tulip driver sometimes writes information to the logs. Do you have any lines like: eth0: Transmit error, Tx status NNN. or any other network-related lines in the kernel logs during the malfunction? woody:~# more /var/log/kern.log | grep

Re: unexplained network problems

2004-03-05 Thread Marty Landman
At 05:51 PM 3/5/2004, Kevin Buhr wrote: You meant "/etc/init.d/networking", not "/etc/rc.d/networking". Heh, explains one problem, thanks Kevin. (Also, your "route add" command had the wrong syntax as someone else pointed out, but you shouldn't need the "route add" command if your "/etc/init.d/ne

Re: unexplained network problems

2004-03-05 Thread Kevin Buhr
Marty Landman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 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

Re: unexplained network problems

2004-03-04 Thread Bill Carlson
On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Marty Landman wrote: > >route add default gw 192.168.0.1 > > Ah, thank you. So perhaps rebooting simply did what I failed to do manually? Could be, but I don't think so. > > >You may want to check the arp table: > Next time check arp when the problem occurs. Could be anot

Re: unexplained network problems

2004-03-04 Thread Marty Landman
At 09:35 AM 3/4/2004, Joost De Cock wrote: This should be: route add default gw 192.168.0.1 Ah, thank you. So perhaps rebooting simply did what I failed to do manually? You may want to check the arp table: woody:~# arp Address HWtype HWaddress Flags MaskI

Re: unexplained network problems

2004-03-04 Thread Joost De Cock
On Thursday 04 March 2004 15:33, Marty Landman shoved this in my mailbox: > route add gw 192.168.0.1 > gw: host name lookup failure This should be: route add default gw 192.168.0.1 You may want to check the arp table: arp anything in it? joost DISCLAIMER This e-mail and any attached files