two questions

[sharkey@superk.physics.sunysb.edu]

> The first question I have is easy: is this list archived anywhere? I'd like
> to be able to thumb through the archives...

Not that I know of, but that's hardly definitive...

> The second is not so easy: I have a couple of Realtek knockoffs with an MPX
> EN-5038 chipset. They are detected just fine, the linklight comes on when
> connected (both at the NIC and the switch), and pings light up the activity
> light. HOWEVER, the pings don't actually succeed. Worse, no errors seem to
> occur. While pinging from this interface, ifconfig shows the TX packets
> incrementing and the remote end's RX packets incrementing. RX on the sending
> end and TX on the receiving end are not incrementing.

This could be a hardware problem.

Is the situation symmetric?  I.E., if you ping from host A to host B, A's
TX increments, B's RX increments, but nothing else, but, if you ping from
B to A, does B's TX increment then?

If not, I'd suspect faulty cabling.  Swap the cables the machines are using
and see if the behavior asymmetry follows the cables.

Eric
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