[tulip-bug] AMDTek Tx Errors and Carrier Errors x2

Chuck Huber chuck@cehuber.org
Wed Nov 6 09:37:02 2002


I seem to be having a similar problem with my AmdTek Comet
chip.  There was a related thread that reported similar problems
with a different chip, but there was never any resolution posted.

SITREP:  RH7.2, kernel 2.4.18-17
 When pinging from a remote, unrelated host on the internet,
tcpdump shows the echo requests coming in, but no echo replies
going out.  Also, when pinging a remote host, tcpdump shows
the echo requests going out and echo replies coming back, but
ping shows no responses.  Below is the output of ifconfig.

I downloaded tulip-1.1.8 from sourceforge and loaded it as
a module.  No change in behavior.  I also eliminated iptables
as a problem by flushing all tables (wide open firewall)
which didn't change the behavior, either.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
    - Chuck

eth2      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:04:5A:7B:D0:2B  
          inet addr:64.129.169.149  Bcast:64.129.169.151  Mask:255.255.255.252
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:100 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:92 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:184
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 
          RX bytes:8258 (8.0 Kb)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Interrupt:9 Base address:0x800 


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