Hoary upgrade: no network connection

[Christoph Bier]

Carl Karsten schrieb:
> Christoph Bier wrote:
> 
>>Carl Karsten schrieb:

[...]

> Um, is now a blackout, or can you never ping it?

I can never ping fee or from fee. At least I didn't observe it. I'll
log the ping output for some hours tonight.

>  Um, let me rephrase: 
> can you ever ping the gateway, both from fee and lotus?

I can always ping the gateway from lotus or any other machine in the
network, except from fee.

[...]

> In one session (xterm or VT): # ping gatewayIP
> once that gets going - although it is failing,
> # watch -ds ifconfig
> 
> What do the RX and TX lines do?  (change or stay the same)

They are changing, but ping is failing.

> Might want to "watch route n"

JFTR: watch route -n
		  ^

Nothing changed.

> too and see if something changes durring 
> the OK/Blackout transition.

Because there is no 'OK', but always 'blackout', I can't observe
anything corresponding.

> and watch anything else that might be 
> interesting ;)  Something is changing.

What else?

>>>If No to either, is it posaible to isolate the 2 machines from the rest 
>>>of the LAN, like with a crossover cable, unplug everything else from the 
>>>hub/switch or plug the 2 into a spare hub? (what, everyone doesn't carry 
>>>around a hub with them?)
>>
>>No, no crossover cable at hand.
> 
> What about unplugging everything else, including the gateway?

Nothing.

> Might want to power cycle the hub to.  every few months one of mine goes 
> wonky and doesn't let traffic go anywhere.

Ok, I just tried to be 150% sure ;-): but didn't help.

I'll try a live cd now as Sam suggested.

Best regards,
	Christoph (*confused*)
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