ethernet oddity

[Sandy Harris]

On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 2:00 AM, Yannick Le Saint <y.lesaint at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sandy Harris wrote:
>  >  Not sure what to try next or how to diagnose the problem.
>
>  Hi there,
>
>  Well you could see with ifconfig if the device has sent / received
>  packets.

No. But it says it has dropped a few for transmit and some utterly
huge number, near 2^32, dropped on receive. No-one as been
sending to it, except for a ping or two, so that is odd.

>  You could also check your logs /var/log/messages and dmesg.
>
Nothing obviously relevant there. Of course, I may have missed it.

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Sandy Harris,
Nanjing, China