Re: PROBLEM: Losing network connectivity with 2.2.10

Brian Leeper (qaz@eni.net)
Thu, 17 Jun 1999 20:20:12 -0400 (EDT)


On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Keith Owens wrote:

> First, run tulip with debug 2. If it is a module, insmod tulip debug=2.
> If builtin, compile with -DTULIP_DEBUG=2.
> When it hangs, what does the tulip-diag program report? Run as
> tulip-diag -fame -p 0xb800.
> http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/diag/tulip-diag.c.

I'm waiting for one of the machines that I've configured with DEBUG=2 to
drop off the network. I'll get this information as soon as that happens.

> Instead of ifconfig down/up, does
> ifconfig eth0 promisc
> ifconfig eth0 -promisc
> fix the problem? If so, I probably have a fix for you.

I tried this on another machine that dropped off the network (but I hadn't
installed tulip-diag nor had I configured DEBUG=2 on that one). Didn't
help--only ifconfig down/up helped.

Brian

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