On Tuesday 27 April 2004 4:13 pm, jludwig wrote: > On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 10:43, Gary Stainburn wrote: > > [root@localhost root]# mii-tool > > eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-HD, link ok > > mii-tool says the NIC sees other cards > > > [root@localhost root]# ping -b -c 3 10.2.0.0 > > WARNING: pinging broadcast address > > PING 10.2.0.0 (10.2.0.0) 56(84) bytes of data. > > 64 bytes from 10.2.1.7: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.263 ms > > 64 bytes from 10.2.1.7: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.259 ms > > 64 bytes from 10.2.1.7: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.228 ms > > Ping says your upper levels protocol, NIS, etc refuse to communicate. > 1) Is this a TCP/IP protocol network? > 2) Is there another Linux box to check for configuration information? > > > --- 10.2.0.0 ping statistics --- > > 3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2004ms > > rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.228/0.250/0.263/0.015 ms, pipe 2 > > [root@localhost root]# uname -a > > Linux localhost.localdomain 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl #1 Wed Oct 29 15:42:51 EST > > 2003 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux > > [root@localhost root]# > > [gary@gary gary]$ I've found in the archive for (i think) this list the following message. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2003-December/msg02517.html I've looked at the output from dmesg, and sure enough there's the same text eth0: Media Link Off but then folowed by eth0: Media Link On 100mbps half-duplex. I don't understand why it would be 100MB but only half duplex. Do you think this could indicate a problem. (I've included everything dmesg had on eth0) [root@localhost root]# dmesg|gvim - Vim: Reading from stdin... [root@localhost root]# dmesg|grep ^eth0 eth0: SiS 900 Internal MII PHY transceiver found at address 1. eth0: Using transceiver found at address 1 as default eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xd000, IRQ 11, 00:a0:cc:c5:9d:7e. eth0: SiS 900 Internal MII PHY transceiver found at address 1. eth0: Using transceiver found at address 1 as default eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xd000, IRQ 11, 00:a0:cc:c5:9d:7e. eth0: Media Link On 100mbps half-duplex eth0: Media Link Off eth0: Media Link On 100mbps half-duplex -- Gary Stainburn This email does not contain private or confidential material as it may be snooped on by interested government parties for unknown and undisclosed purposes - Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, 2000
