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raf wrote:
> John Arends wrote:
>
> > I'm having problems accessing my linux box from other computers on my
> > network. If I telnet to the linux box, it takes a really long time to get
> > through, but i eventually get there. If I type route on the linux box, i get
> > the routing table, but once again it takes a really long time to appear.
> >
> > The linux box has 2 NICs in it. eth- is connected to my cable modem via
> > dhcp, and eth1 is on the internal network.
> >
> > I'm using the basic script from the how-to that uses ipchains, and it works
> > fine. The computers on my network all see the internet just fine, and
> > everything works really quickly.
> >
> > There is some kind of problem with the internal network though on the linux
> > box, that I just can't place. If I ping other computers on the network, that
> > works just fine.
> >
> > The only other odd thing is that every few minutes I get the error 'eth1: tx
> > interupt but no status' appearing on the linux box's monitor.
> >
> > This just seems weird to me because internet access works fine, so I'd think
> > if something was broken, that'd fail too.
> >
> > Does anyone have an idea?
>
> since it eventually works, it sounds very much like
> you have firewall rules that aren't accepting traffic
> between you and your primary dns server but access to
> your secondary dns server is ok. does route -n work
> fine? or telnet <ipaddress>? if so, then this is
> definitely it. maybe the rest of the hosts can get to
> the primary dns server but the linux host can't?
i probably should have finished reading your message before
replying :) that error message sounds like a hardware fault
in eth1. i'm not familiar with hardware error messages but
it sounds like a packet arrived, an interrupt occurred, the
kernel asked the nic what was up and didn't get a response.
try another nic?
> raf
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