flaky nic or flaky cable. you said you bought a switch, is it by chance a 10/100 autosensing? would it be running 100/full duplex? if so, force it to 10mbps, and see if it helps. on my system, some of my more lengthy cable runs don't like 100mbps too much. try a ping, and let it go for say 100 packets on the 100mbps. contro-c and look at the packet loss. then, force to 10mbps, do the same ping, and compare. ron --- Monte Milanuk <milanuk@yahoo.com> wrote:

Ok. Here is the scenario. I have the kids computer running SuSE 6.4. It is a generic, no-name Celeron 266 w/ 64M RAM, onboard sound (Crystal 4236), on-board video (ATI Rage Pro AGP w/ 8M RAM), a 3.2G EIDE HD, and of course, ps/2 mouse, keyboard, 17" monitor, speakers. It also has a Netgear FA310TX 10/100Mb PCI Ethernet card. All the pc's in the house are connected via a LinkSys 10/100 5-port switch (I doubt it's the switch, as the problem occured before the switch, when I had a Netgear FE-104 hub). There are times when I want to log into the kids computer (upstairs) from my computer (downstairs). Every so often, I can't get in via the network. telnet returns an error complaining of 'No route to host'. Ping times out. telneting to other hosts, i.e. the freesco firewall, or using the Win98 box via vnc, work, but once logged into those hosts, I still can't reach the kids computer. If I go to the kids computer, 'ifconfig' shows eth0 as up and running, but w/ ~35500 errors last time. A quick 'ifconfig eth0 down' and then 'ifconfig eth0 up' seems to fix the problem, at least for a week or two. I seriously doubt any extra-curricular activities on the part of the kids, as this problem started this summer, while they were away on vacation. Is it just a flaky nic? Or is this something else?

Thanks for your time,

Monte

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