Óôßò Fri, 26 Dec 2003 08:47:55 -0500 Jerry Feldman Ýãñáøå:

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On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 2:08:44 EET pseep@mail.gr wrote:

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Óôßò Mon, 22 Dec 2003 18:34:18 -0500 "Scot L. Harris" Ýãñáøå:

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On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 15:04, Pieter Hulshoff wrote:

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On Tuesday 23 December 2003 03:24, pseep@mail.gr wrote:

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eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:04:76:9B:98:C4 inet addr:192.168.1.251 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::204:76ff:fe9b:98c4/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:41 frame:0 TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:5074 (4.9 Kb) TX bytes:288 (288.0 b) Interrupt:18 Base address:0xe000

Hmm, a few things: 1. I don't see a local loopback definition. 2. You have 41 buffer overruns on your received packets. 3. What's the output of the route command on your machine?

You may want to consider using YAST2 to set up your network one more time to see if it'll work then.

Regards,

Pieter Hulshoff

What type of switch do you have? Are you running a 10Mb or 100Mb network? I am just now building my first SUSE system, but this problem sounds like an issue I had with some other boxes where the network card defaulted to 10Mb and the switch was configured to 100Mb. I have also seen where Cisco switches would not auto detect the speed or the duplex settings correctly.

Does SUSE use mii-tool to check and set speed and duplex options?

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I haven't figured out this problem yet. What else could cause such a problem? first, I think that Scott's questions are very relevant. I too have seen cases where a switch does not autosense the speed properly, and this was on a commercial Unix network. I had to manually set my network card up for half duplex.

Secondly, if you are using a hub, and you have different speeds on your network, that could be causing you some problems.

While SuSE generally does a good job of detecting the network card, I would probably want to set the card manually to see if that corrects the problems. This can be done through YaST: YaST/Network Devices/Network Card/Hardware Detail.

It is very possible that when you installed the new card, it changed the settings then when you replaced the old card, there were some problems.

I would suggest that you delete eth0/ click finish. Then go back to network card, and add eth0 back in.

If you are still receiving overruns, then edit the entry, click Hardware details, then enter the specific options for the driver in use. You can consult the following Howto for some additional information: http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO.html

A list of options may be found on your system: /usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt

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Well, i am using a 3com switch, 3com ethernet card. The winpcs sharing the same switch do't seem to have any problem. If i should change the hardware details within the network card tab then which new settings should i set, where can find them? ------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.mail.gr/ - Get Your Private Free Email Address! http://www.ringtone.gr/ - Ringtones & Logos for your mobile!