Networking novice needs help

[Jeff LaCoursiere]

WHat is the output of netstat -in?  If you see lots of errors you most
likely have a cabling issue as I mentioned just now...

j

On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Kevin O Connor wrote:

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> ---------- Original Message -----------
> From: John Murphy <jfm at blueyonder.co.uk>
> To: freebsd-users at uk.freebsd.org
> Sent: Sun, 01 Dec 2002 01:08:05 +0000
> Subject: Re: Networking novice needs help
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> > Tim Chown <tjc at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
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> > >> de0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> > >> 	inet6 fe80::200:e8ff:fe21:b423%de0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
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> > >Why not use real IP as above instead of the old legacy IPv4 stuff? :)
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> > _now_ I'm scared.  Usually disable that v6 stuff.  I've no faith etc.
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> > Back to the thread though; seems strange that the install worked via
> > the network, but now the same wires don't ping.  Something must've changed.
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> > -- 
> > john.
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> Could be faulty card, bad cable or auto negotiation. What type of hub or 
> switch are you using. Have you tried forcing the card to use 10Mbps. Can you 
> ping the address from the actual box the card is fitted to. Sorry lots of 
> questions but few anwsers
> Kevin
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