[wellylug] eth troubles

[Edouard Chalaron]

Hello Abhinav Keswani :

Ok after checking I am in full duplex .... on all machines..; so far so good. 
Ifconfig -a does not return errors on any of them...
LAN config is really simple: 5 machines on the switch with static IPs ... 

mii-tool is Ok .... 
eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-FD flow-control, link ok

arp -a
give me nothing on the misbehaving machine
On other Pcs the switch never appears and returns various outputs (some PC are 
here not others), but all machines but one are connecting Ok on the switch 
and access each other + internet through an Ipcop machine...

> Ideally you would be able to do this on the switch as well.  I don't
> know the switch you have and if you don't have the manual I can only
> recommend you look up an online manual or google it.  

Yep I got it thanks .. a 3com 3300, they do not tell much reallly... will give 
them a calll.. there is a 0800 number

> Power cycling it 
> should drop the arp cache ...  perhaps why it worked the first time?
> Dont know why it failed the second time.

I am starting to wonder if my eth card is reallly working... 
if the arp cache of the switch is not cleared for other machines why should 
they work ?
Thing is that I probably over heated my PC by running 4 mpeg2 encoding and the 
thing did shutt off by itself ... since then...

Anyway I will give a go at DSE to get a new card and see what happens... and 
this machine is  for an upgrade so ... that is the opportunity (read good 
excuse) I was missing ..
Cheers
E