I have a P166 with a 3Com 3c595 "Vortex" ethernet card. I can ftp and
telnet out from my box to other boxes on the network. But when trying
to ftp or telnet into the box the ftp or telnet will just stall for
minutes. Sometimes then I get a connection and everything seems to run
all right except that future connections attempts will also stall.
I just did /sbin/ifconfig eth0 and I get this:
eth0 Link encap:10Mbps Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:24:89:A9:4F
inet addr:192.43.34.1 Bcast:192.43.34.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:282 dropped:0 overruns:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:452 overruns:0
Interrupt:10 Base address:0x6000
why do I have dropped packets? Is this part of the problem causing the
stall?
Thanks,
- jeff Wiegley