<quote who="David">

> Cisco -> switch -> Ubuntu warty
>               -> several Macintosh
>               -> 3 x Debian Sarge
>               -> Windows XP (powertel guy's testing laptop)
> 
> I could ping around my LAN, including Ubuntu, but the cisco was not 
> responding from either the net, or my lan. I was getting a mixture of 
> unreachable messages, with the occassional 3 second ping response (about 
> one in twenty).
> 
> The whole problem went away after unplugging/rebooting/reconnecting Ubuntu 
> and hasn't recurred! The nice powertel man suggested a network card 
> hardware problem in Ubuntu - but why would that lock up their cisco?

What's the NIC in the Ubuntu box?

- Jeff

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