Typically, if you have frame or carrier errors, it's usually a bad cable. Could be your switch or card too. It's almost 100% not a configuration problem. <funny story> I used to work for an advertising agency here in Minneapolis. We had an office in chicago, and everyday around noon, everyone in the chicago office would call and complain that the network was slow, or working intermittently. We verified heavy packet loss out there when they complained. So, a couple of months later when we were in the office out there, we checked it out. Some ingenious individual brought a microwave into work so they could heat up their lunch, and they set it right on top of the switch. So during lunch, everyone in the office would heat up their lunch, and basically microwave the switch. </funny story> Jay > -----Original Message----- > From: Perry Hoekstra [mailto:dutchman at uswest.net] > Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 3:31 AM > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: [TCLUG] Basic Network Problem > > > I have a basic network setup whereas I don't run DNS but just etc/host > file with just three PCs set up with 10.0.0.x addresses and dhcp for a > laptop. I seem to be have network troubles with my main workstation. > When I do an ifconfig, I see the following: > > 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:1010 errors:508 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:1369 > TX packets:6384 errors:12 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:24 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 > RX bytes:171095 (167.0 Kb) TX bytes:8399187 (8.0 Mb) > Interrupt:10 Base address:0x9000 > > My concern is the errors with the RX packets. They seem abnormally > high. When I do a route -n, I see the following: > > Kernel IP routing table > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric > Ref Use > Iface > 10.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 > 0 0 > eth0 > 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 > 0 0 > lo > > Did I forget to configure something that is causing my > network troubles? > > -- > Perry Hoekstra > E-Commerce Architect > Talent Software Services > perry.hoekstra at talentemail.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. > Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >