[tulip] KNE111TX arp problems

Donald Becker becker@scyld.com
Sat, 21 Jul 2001 09:28:22 -0400 (EDT)


On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, Tom Huckstep wrote:

> I have two computers linked with a crossover cable between two
> KNE111TX NICs.  henry is my main workstation, and maxwell is a old
> system that I don't always have turned on.
> 
> After system boot everything is OK, and the network connection is
> fine.  Often though, if I do an ifup eth0; ifdown eth0 on either
> system the connection is broken, because one system or other cannot
> find the hardware address of the other card. e.g.:

What is the detection message, including driver version number?

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