[Techtalk] The Return of the Network Failure

[Kathryn Andersen]

On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 11:28:55PM +0530, Devdas Bhagat wrote:
> On 19/05/04 07:56 +1000, Kathryn Andersen wrote:
> > Sorry folks, to bother you again, but the original solution to my
> > network problem (to run mii-tool with the -F (force) option)
> > no longer works.  I have now made sure that both the laptop and the
> > desktop are running the same kernel (Debian 2.4.26-1-686).
> > One strange thing that seems to be happening is that the desktop thinks
> > that the link is up, while the laptop insists that the link is down.
> Can you verify that the network cable works? I would crimp a new cable
> and test.
If I didn't know better, I really would start suspecting the cable.
Could they have sold me a dud cable?
Or is there a way I can test whether the network card in the desktop is
still working?

> Also, tcpdump output from both hosts would be nice.

Again, when the renegotiation is attempted, tcpdump doesn't pick up
anything on the laptop either.
The result when a ping is attempted from the laptop to the desktop is as
much as one would expect:

09:41:49.769695 0:0:86:53:f:a9 ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 0806 42: arp who-has
192.168.33.1 tell 192.168.33.2
(and so on)

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