pump is a dhcp client. Do 'grep dhcp /var/logs/message.log' or whatever your system log is called. This will tell you what's going on with dhcp.
Guess you don't have a choice of ISPs, sounds like your service sucks. I get DSL from Eatel and it's pretty good. Never had any major problems. John Hebert > -----Original Message----- > From: Boyd Davezac [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 11:42 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [brluglist] Cox Cable needs to give free month this > month... > > > John, > what is pump? It is not installed on my machine. I guess I > feel like a lucky > one, at least I am not having the packet loss that Shannon is > having. But I > do sympathize with the wait time on tech support. I waited > for 45 min twice > and hung up. Cox's PR department should say something. I > mean they have > that channel with those two guys showing everyone how to > install the new cox > cd software for windows. By the way, when you do get in touch > with tech > support they tell you NOT to install the cd it will mess up > your machine. > LOL I think that Cox should put out a letter or an e-mail or > put something > on that channel explaining the problems and what they are > trying to do to > fix it - instead of leaving us all in the dark. I guess they > don't care - > they got their money not to mention they just raised the > price of internet > to 50 something dollars up from I think 40 dollars. That's my 2 cents. > > Boyd > > > >From: John Hebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >This number of collision is normal. Ethernet is not an intelligent > >protocol, > >so it just blasts out packets willy-nilly, hoping to get a word in > >edge-wise > >before another Ethernet device does. A collision happens > when two Ethernet > >devices speak out at the same instant. > > > >The problem is something else. What does '/sbin/pump -s' say? Also, I > >believe there is a dhcp log of some kind in /var/logs. What > does that say? > >I'll bet the problem is your ISP's dhcpd. > > > >John Hebert > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Boyd Davezac [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 2:28 AM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: [brluglist] Cox Cable needs to give free month > this month... > > > > > > > > > Myself and several others have been having serious > problems with Cox > > > internet. > > > > > > Since they changed to 4 hour leases on ip's with dhcp, some > > > of my friends > > > have lost their connection entirely, while I haven't I have > > > trouble loading > > > webpages. I have to hit reload many many times before > > > something loads. Some > > > pages load fine - but most of the time it's slow. I decided > > > to boot into > > > Linux from Windows so I could analyze the situation. Here is > > > what I found: > > > > > > Output from ifconfig eth0: > > > > > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:CC:59:4A:3D > > > inet addr:68.11.208.100 Bcast:68.11.208.255 > > > Mask:255.255.255.0 > > > UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1 > > > RX packets:7732 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > > > TX packets:4078 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > > > collisions:357 txqueuelen:100 > > > RX bytes:2618784 (2.4 Mb) TX bytes:553814 (540.8 Kb) > > > Interrupt:5 Base address:0xc800 > > > > > > As you can see, after transmitting 540 kb and receiving 2.4Mb > > > it had 357 > > > collisions. I am not a network expert and don't know what is > > > causing this > > > as this was not a problem before. I think the collision > > > number should be > > > much lower huh? > > > > > > I am wondering how everyone else's connection is and could > > > someone tell me > > > if the collisions are indeed high or is this normal? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Boyd > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Join the world's largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. > http://www.hotmail.com > > ================================================ > BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group > Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change > your subscription information. > ================================================ > ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================
