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

unexplained network problems

2004-03-04 Thread Marty Landman
Running woody on a lan using another box - 192.168.0.1 as the gateway. The debian box runs samba as do two other nix boxes. Last night everything seemed fine, this morning for unknown reasons my debian box doesn't seem to be able to talk with anything else. Can ping myself by name, network ip,