Network card problems

[Igor Gueths]

Ifconfig will report this information even if the interface is down.
However, the rx/tx packets will all be of a value 0.

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On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Geoff Shang wrote:

> On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Alex Snow wrote:
>
> > Nope, that's why I'm starting to think it's a dhcp issue.  All it shows is
> > the mac address of the adapter and lots of other crap about rx and tx
> > packets etc.
>
> ummm.  In my experience, it only shows you the RX and TX packets and stuff
> if the interface is actually up and running, which suggests that it's
> actually working.  I might be wrong though, it's awhile since I've seen
> ifconfig on a device that's not working.
>
> The output of a working interface should look like this:
>
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:20:18:3D:09:B3
>           inet addr:10.2.0.1  Bcast:10.2.0.255  Mask:255.255.0.0
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:373766 errors:0 dropped:18 overruns:0 frame:6
>           TX packets:369948 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:981 txqueuelen:100
>           Interrupt:11 Base address:0x6100
>
> Perhaps, if possible, you could send us your ifconfig output.  If the link
> light is coming on for a short spell during boot-up, perhaps listen to the
> boot sequence to see what's happening.  The relevant bit is not likely to
> be in dmesg but you could look there anyway just in case.
>
> Geoff.
>
>
>
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