[PLUG] Troubleshooting DHCP...

wes plug at the-wes.com
Mon Dec 28 23:49:15 UTC 2009


On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Michael Robinson
<plug_1 at robinson-west.com>wrote:

>
> 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.
>
>
So boot the other end, then switch the hardware.

-wes



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