[PLUG] Troubleshooting DHCP...

Michael Robinson plug_1 at robinson-west.com
Mon Dec 28 23:43:16 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-12-28 at 15:28 -0800, Mike Connors wrote:
> Michael Robinson wrote:
> > I'm wondering if the Cat5 STP cable is having problems.
> If I were working on this problem, the 1st thing I'd do is use the 
> ethtool command
> to look at the physical Ethernet statistics on both sides. If there's 
> any problems at the physical layer
> you'll see them reflected in error counters.
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Trouble is, the other end doesn't boot if this doesn't work.  I was
seeing packet errors on the far end though before I tried to reformat
the etherboot disk.




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