Another Ethernet problem for Thomas :) Cont.

[Leon Pollak]

On Wednesday, 30 בJanuary 2008, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> A numerologist would tell you that 7 is a perfect number and
> that it must be a sign. :-D
Yes, I see the sign in my eyes for the last 2 days! :)
May be I shall start counting packets from 7 ? :)


> Are you on a cross-over cable, private subnet, etc?
This is private subnet via unmanaged switch. Should I change this?


> Can you see the packet on the wire with Ethereal/WireShark/tcpdump?
Yes, see the previous mail. :)

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On Wednesday, 30 בJanuary 2008, Thomas Doerfler wrote:
> DHCP?
No, static IP.


> What do you get, when your print the interface statistics directly after
> network startup?

Destination     Gateway/Mask/Hw    Flags     Refs     Use Expire Interface
127.0.0.1       127.0.0.1          UH          0        0      0 lo0
192.168.50.0    255.255.255.0      U           0        0      1 eth0
************ MBUF STATISTICS ************
mbufs: 512    clusters:  64    free:  32
drops:   0       waits:   0  drains:   0
      free:478           data:34          header:0           socket:0
       pcb:0           rtable:0           htable:0           atable:0
    soname:0           soopts:0           ftable:0           rights:0
    ifaddr:0          control:0          oobdata:0

************ INTERFACE STATISTICS ************
***** eth0 *****
Ethernet Address: 00:80:7F:22:61:77
Address:192.168.50.133  Broadcast Address:192.168.50.255  Net 
mask:255.255.255.0

Flags: Up Broadcast Running Simplex
Send queue limit:50   length:0    Dropped:0
      Rx Interrupts:0              Not First:0               Not Last:0
              Giant:0                   Runt:0              Non-octet:0
            Bad CRC:0                Overrun:0              Collision:0
          Discarded:0
      Tx Interrupts:1               Deferred:0        Missed Hearbeat:0
         No Carrier:0       Retransmit Limit:0         Late Collision:0
           Underrun:0        Raw output wait:0
***** lo0 *****
Address:127.0.0.1       Net mask:255.255.255.0
Flags: Up Loopback Running Multicast
Send queue limit:50   length:0    Dropped:0


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I think the one in Tx is this 133->133 arp request.

> And try to monitor which broadcasts are transmitted in the 7 seconds!
Nothing, as I can be sure that tcpdump does it work...


Thanks.
-- 
Leon