Re: Second sending...

2001-11-09 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Thu, 08 Nov 2001, Ian Millsom wrote: > Its a rtl8139.. Now a lot of people will bag these cards, but they do the > job. I have about 30 other machines all the same setup > (processors/hdd/memory) differ, but the setup is the same and they all > work fine. > > > what is the system(s) hooked to?

Re: Second sending...

2001-11-08 Thread Steffen Evers
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 17:43, Ian Millsom wrote: > I have a debian machine which keeps dropping its ethernet connection > around every 2.3 minutes. ... > Any thoughts would be appreciated.. Have you tried if this problem is Debinan/Linux specific? This way you can make sure that it is not a ghar

Re: Second sending...

2001-11-08 Thread Ian Millsom
Hi Nate, > > I have a debian machine which keeps dropping its ethernet > > connection around every 2.3 minutes. > > what kinda nic? maybe its a flakey driver. i had a similar > problem but it was purely a routing issue. i had moved > a linux gateway to a new network and it still had a route > for

Re: Second sending...

2001-11-08 Thread nate
Ian Millsom said: > Hi > > I have a debian machine which keeps dropping its ethernet > connection around every 2.3 minutes. what kinda nic? maybe its a flakey driver. i had a similar problem but it was purely a routing issue. i had moved a linux gateway to a new network and it still had a route fo

Second sending...

2001-11-08 Thread Ian Millsom
Hi I have a debian machine which keeps dropping its ethernet connection around every 2.3 minutes. This is the second machine that I have doing this to me now, and I cannot work out whats wrong. I have done the obvious and changed NIC's but the problem still exists. I have written a small bash sc