Subject: Re: very strange ethernet problem
To: Jeremy Cooper <jeremy@baymoo.org>
From: Mark Abene <phiber@radicalmedia.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 10/30/2000 21:50:19
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 06:45:55PM -0800, Jeremy Cooper wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Mark Abene wrote:
> 
> > A simple test I've done is connect either or both Suns to the LAN, and do
> > a "ping -s 1024 foo", from one local machine to another local machine.  It
> > doesn't matter if one of these machines is one of the Suns in question.
> > I immediately see collisions, and missed echo replies.  Tcpdump shows
> > NOTHING while the collisions are happening, simply echo requests with no
> > replies.  No other traffic.
> 
> Can you boot SunOS onto either of these machines and see if the problem
> goes away?
> 
> -J
> 

Unfortunately I don't have SunOS, nor easy access to it.  Sorry.
Any other suggestions I could try?

Thanks,
-Mark