On Jun 6, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > ps. Between dmesg, ifconfig, and the proc filesystem you can poke > around and get a good idea of what Linux thinks is going on, and how > that meshes with what's supposed to be going on. > Thanks for the suggestions. I check with all these commands. Here is the message I get from those programs. They all seems pretty well.
dmesg: NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x300 : 00 40 05 17 a9 a7 eth0: NE2000 found at 0x300, using IRQ 3 ifconfig: eth0: Link encap 10Mbps Ethernet HWaddr 00 40 05 17 a9 a7 inet addr: 128.174.57.79 Bcast 128.174.255.255 Nmask 255.255.0.0 UP BROADCASTING RUNNING MULTICAST MTU: 1500 Metric: 1 Rx packets:0 errors: 0 drops: 0 overruns: 0 Tx packets:87 errors: 0 drops: 0 overruns: 0 Interrupt 3 Base Address 0x300 route: Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 128.174.0.0 * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 5 eth0 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 2 lo default 128.174.57.65 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 9 eth0 /proc/net/arp: IP address HW type Flags HW address Mask Device 128.174.57.65 0x1 0x0 00 00 00 00 00 00 * The only abnormal thing is that 'Device' in file /proc/net/arp is null. And when using 'route', it takes a long time to display the third row 'default'. So, what is the cause for this? Actually, the LAN works all the time. IS the configuration not correct? -ctang -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .