Re: [Server-devel] Help for unreliable ADSL and cable modems: bounce-eth0.sh

2010-07-26 Thread Daniel Drake
On 26 July 2010 17:22, Martin Langhoff wrote: > [ What I remember is that the NIC was a 'mii' device on an IBM > SOHO-style minitower server. The cablemodem is a Motorola modem I've > used before without trouble with Linux boxes. Cannot remember model, > apologies. ] I've had 3 motorola cable mod

Re: [Server-devel] Help for unreliable ADSL and cable modems: bounce-eth0.sh

2010-07-26 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Xavier Carcelle wrote: > Could you give the exact model and reference of this cable-modem and > potentially the SoC (System on Chip) and the Ethernet chip used on > this modem to dig the driver issues. I am back home now -- Juan Guillermo Narvaez has the gear and

Re: [Server-devel] Help for unreliable ADSL and cable modems: bounce-eth0.sh

2010-07-26 Thread Xavier Carcelle
Dear Martin, Could you give the exact model and reference of this cable-modem and potentially the SoC (System on Chip) and the Ethernet chip used on this modem to dig the driver issues. Is it running Linux on the cable-modem ? My best, Xavier. On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Martin Langhoff

[Server-devel] Help for unreliable ADSL and cable modems: bounce-eth0.sh

2010-07-26 Thread Martin Langhoff
Working with Juan in La Rioja, we had in our hands cablemodems with several oddities: - We were using a 'straight' cat5, and sometimes the NIC would not see that the modem was connected right after boot. This may well be a bug in the NIC driver. Using a crossover cable, or a shorter cable, or bou