One of my boxes on the network is having extreme difficulty in
communicating with the rest of the network. If I do an ifconfig, I see
upwards of half of the packets dropped:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:E3:05:92:46
inet addr:10.0.0.1 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1744 errors:967 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:2462
TX packets:12380 errors:32 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:64
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:288515 (281.7 Kb) TX bytes:16860881 (16.0 Mb)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0x8000
Now the network is just four boxes, no DNS, just host files and static
IP addresses for three plus one laptop that uses DHCP (which isn't the
box that is having problems). My question is: how do I determine if I
have a bad network card/driver versus a bad network configuration. I
started digging around with some of the network tools to try to diagnose
the problem but nothing popped up. However, I am network-challenged in
this area and something could be staring me in the face and I wouldn't
know it.
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Perry Hoekstra, MS
E-Commerce Architect
Talent Software Services
perry.hoekstra at talentemail.com