[TriLUG] RR setup - works but ifconfig shows no tx on eth0

[Ben Pitzer]

Ken,

Have you contacted tech support yet?  If they can't seem to help you (Tier 1
will simply ask you to reboot and reset your modem at the same time), and
you don't feel like you're getting anywhere with them, send me your cable
modem MAC, and I'll see if I can see what things look like from this end.
So far as tech support is concerned, pretend that you have a Windows 2000 or
98 box that you're using, and don't mention that it's Linux.  The number of
collisions makes me believe that it's either an issue of the ethernet cable
that you're using, or something is wrong either at the card side, or the
modem side.

Regards,
Ben Pitzer

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-admin at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-admin at trilug.org]On Behalf
> Of ken at kenwahl.org
> Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 1:22 AM
> To: trilug at trilug.org
> Subject: [TriLUG] RR setup - works but ifconfig shows no tx on eth0
>
>
> Howdy all,
>
>
> Had RR installed today and it appears to be working fine in
> that I can
> surf and receive email etc but I noticed that the eth0 Krell
> in GKrellM was
> not showing any outgoing traffic.
>
>
> System: RedHat 9 standalone connected to a SurfBoard SB3100
> cable modem
> via a Linksys LNE100TX 10/100 LAN Card.  Formerly on dial-up
> with Portbridge.
>
>
> RedHat detected the card on reboot and allowed me to configure
> it on the
> spot.  I chose the dynamic IP option and carried on and everything
> seems to work normally.  Ifconfig however, also shows no
> outgoing traffic as
> well:
>
>
> [ken at vendetta net]$ ifconfig
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:04:5A:7F:D0:D0
>           inet addr:24.163.32.149  Bcast:255.255.255.255
> Mask:255.255.255.0
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:147556 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:0 errors:38443 dropped:0 overruns:0
> carrier:76835
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
>           RX bytes:63735820 (60.7 Mb)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
>           Interrupt:11 Base address:0x6000
> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
>           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>           RX packets:145853 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:145853 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>           RX bytes:8360239 (7.9 Mb)  TX bytes:8360239 (7.9 Mb)
>
>
> Here is the output of netstat -r
>
>
> [ken at vendetta net]$ netstat -r
>
>
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS
> Window  irtt Iface
> 24.163.32.0     *               255.255.255.0   U         0 0
>          0 eth0
> 169.254.0.0     *               255.255.0.0     U         0 0
>          0 eth0
> 127.0.0.0       *               255.0.0.0       U         0 0
>          0 lo
> default         rdu163-32-001.n 0.0.0.0         UG        0 0
>          0 eth0
>
>
> Can anybody clue me in on what I need to fix?
> TIA
>
> --
> Ken Wahl  ken at kenwahl.org  http://www.kenwahl.org
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