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Re: SCSI killed my network!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Nelson)
Fri Nov 8 21:15:59 1996
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 17:35:47 -0800 (PST)
From: Matt Nelson <mnelson@dynatec.com>
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On Fri, 8 Nov 1996, Matt Nelson wrote:
> then the Buslogic BT-958 host adapter and Seagate Baracuda i had ordered
> arrived, and i merrily went about re-installing the system onto the SCSI
> drive (package install time dropped from 13 min on the EIDE to 7.5 min on
> the SCSI!!!). the system works just fine, EXCEPT that my network is now
> dead. /var/log/messages and ifconfig indicate that the card was detected,
> and most of the system seems to think that it does, in fact, exist.
> however, running ping, ifconfig, tcpdump -i, and looking at /proc/net/dev
> all indicate that packets are going out but none (zilch) are coming in (i
> suppose that none may be going out, as well, but the system seems to think
> that they are...).
OOOOPS! in my frustration, i misread the output of some of these
diagnostics... /proc/net/dev actually shows no received packets, but TONS
of receive errors ("errs" being the only non-zero entry).
sorry to make a two-poster of the problem, but i hope this will help fix
my problem...
-matt nelson
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