help needed
Chris Hewitt
g0pae at manordat.demon.co.uk
Fri Mar 26 23:14:06 UTC 2004
Shatam,
> 01:02.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor
> Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
I seem to remember that there were some problems with 8139 chips. I've
got several 8129 based cards but not an 8139 so I can't comment further
on that. You could check the archives of this list, I'm sure it has come up.
> eth0
> Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:08:A1:32:E1:7E
> inet addr:172.31.65.21 Bcast:172.31.67.255
> Mask:255.255.252.0UP BROADCAST RUNNING
> MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:1
> errors:1286 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX
> packets:52 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:60
> (60.0 b) TX bytes:3120 (3.0 Kb)Interrupt:9
> Base address:0xcc00
As 3120 bytes have been sent and 60 received then the card appears to be
working but I don't like the look of the fact that only one packet has
been received without error but 1286 with errors. Note that you have set
an IP address of 172.31.65.21 with a netmask of 255.255.252.0 (though
you say it should actually be 255.255.0.0) but the broadcast address of
172.31.67.255 is covered.
> Destination Gway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
> 172.31.64.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.252.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
> 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
> 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
> 0.0.0.0 172.31.65.21 0.0.0.0 UG0 0 0 eth0
I assume the router to outside your immediate LAN is 172.31.65.21, which
is within the netmask for the ethernet card so it looks OK to me.
I feel your problem is with the 8139 not receiving properly. Either it
is not properly supported/set up or there is something wrong with you
cabling. It could just be a faulty cable. Not a complete solution but
all I can see from what you have shown.
Regards
Chris
P.S. I have had trouble with your HTML email in editing a reply, I've
had to copy and paste from your original. It would be appreciated if you
would send in plain text.
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