On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Curt Stauffer <cgstauffer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 9:07 AM, Claude Jones > <cjoneslists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Mon December 1 2008, Curt Stauffer wrote: >>> One unusual thing is that I see >>> quite a few "errors" in the packets sent part of the ifconfig display, >>> which is unusual for my network connection (at work on the >>> University's Academic network, rock solid). >> >> could it be something as dumb as a bad cable, or connection? are the network >> LED's lit up at the computer NIC and at the Switch ends of your connection? >> >> you mentioned route as being correct, by that you meant gateway? >> >> I had an upgrade once that confused the network configurations and criss- >> crossed the external and outside NIC's - I discovered this by clicking on the >> 'bind to hardware address' button in s-c-network > > The connections were fine yesterday AM when I ran preupgrade to > download the newer packages. > > Yes, the 'route' command showed that the defaut gateway address looks > correct so far as I can tell (it matches the value given to me by our > networking folks). > > I've looked through /var/log/messages for 'eth0' and don't see > anything indicative of a problem (other than NM saying it was ignoring > eth0, which is what I expected since I'm using s-c-network due to it > being a static address. > > I may try switching it to DHCP and seeing if it then works, that might > narrow down the source of the problem. Switching to DHCP made no difference, although I did notice that the DHCP negotiaton must have happened because I saw reasonable-looking IP numbers for the workstation and gateway. I feel like I'm missing something really obvious here, can someone give me some suggestions of things to try or things to look for? Could firewall be a problem? Thanks again, -Curt -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
