[linux-help] Re: network unreachable

["Dale W Hodge" <dwh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It sounds like hardware to me too. If firwall rules were blocking you should
get "network unreachable" errors on pings rather than just no response. If
the lights on the card aren't blinking, then it isn't sending packets. What
does the output of ifconfig or netstat (-i) show? 

--Dale

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-help-bounce@xxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:linux-help-bounce@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tom Hull
> 
> Jonathan Hall wrote:
> > Sounds like hardware to me.
> > 
> > Does the link light come on (either on the NIC, or on the 
> switch) when the
> > cable is plugged in?
> 
> Both lights come on. Speed is 100mbs. Don't see any blinking 
> when I run
> something like:
> 
>    ping -i 0 -f -I eth0 192.168.1.90 -r 192.168.1.65
> 
> which floods out thousands of ping packets. Seems like the hardware
> level is functioning, but something is blocking data transmission.
> Similar command from other end doesn't blink light either, so receipt
> also seems to fail.
> 
> Could be hardware, I suppose, but doesn't seem all that likely on a
> new machine that had been working smoothly. What else could it be?
> One difference between this machine and others is that netstat -r
> shows MSS = 0 here vs. 40 on others. Haven't figured out how to
> set/change that, even though route(8) suggests it should work.
> 
> >>I have a problem on a recently built Ubuntu Linux system. 
> Sometime in
> >>the last day or two the machine lost its network 
> connection. Ethernet
> >>controller is on the motherboard. It is configured with a static
> >>address, and can ping that address but nothing else on the local
> >>network. Changing cable and/or port on the otherwise working switch
> >>has no effect. We had some trouble yesterday when my gateway machine
> >>couldn't get a DHCP address from Cox for a period of several hours.
> >>Not sure whether the Ubuntu machine problem occurred at that time,
> >>since I didn't notice it until much later. I've rebooted since then.
> >>Don't see anything obviously wrong, e.g. in netstat -r or 
> iptables -L.
> >>
> >>Aside from hardware, is there anything you can think of that might
> >>cause a Linux machine to effectively disconnect itself from a local
> >>network?


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