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