Re: Help! Network stopped working!

[John Aldrich <john chattanooga net>]

On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Jake McHenry wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Bret Hughes wrote:
> 
> --I don't know for sure but I would be suprised if even ping would work if
> --there was a 10/100 MB confusion.
> 
> 
> that's right. If you have a 10 meg network, and try to link up at 100 meg,
> the link lights normally will blink, or just not come on at all. It will work
> the other way, connect at 10 meg on 100 meg network.
> 
> 
Hmm...I wonder if the kernel thinks (somehow) it's connected at
100MB, but the NIC itself realizes it's 10 MB? That would explain why
I can ping the linux box but the linux box can't ping out...
	John