On 6 Feb 2002, Perry Hoekstra wrote:
> One of my boxes on the network is having extreme difficulty in
> communicating with the rest of the network.  If I do an ifconfig, I
> see upwards of half of the packets dropped:
>
>
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:02:E3:05:92:46
>           inet addr:10.0.0.1  Bcast:10.0.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:1744 errors:967 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:2462
>           TX packets:12380 errors:32 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:64
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
>           RX bytes:288515 (281.7 Kb)  TX bytes:16860881 (16.0 Mb)
>           Interrupt:10 Base address:0x8000
>
> Now the network is just four boxes, no DNS, just host files and static
> IP addresses for three plus one laptop that uses DHCP (which isn't the
> box that is having problems).  My question is: how do I determine if I
> have a bad network card/driver versus a bad network configuration.  I
> started digging around with some of the network tools to try to
> diagnose the problem but nothing popped up.  However, I am
> network-challenged in this area and something could be staring me in
> the face and I wouldn't know it.

Is your network card running in full duplex on a half duplex network?

When you see 1/2 of the packets dropped, that's the problem a lot of the
times..

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