Re: Problem with TCP

Steve Shah (sshah@cs.ucr.edu)
Wed, 3 Jun 1998 11:39:13 -0700

On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 09:11:32AM -0700, Barry Treahy wrote:
> I have a DELL 400, and DEC Alpha running DU 4.0, and three other
> PC's running Linux 2.0.33. None of these listed machines can
> successfully FTP these problem files using the client local to that
> machine (Smarterm 420 in the case of the DELL 400), and the all fail
> during the HTTP GET request whether that request is initiated by
> Netscape, IE, or a manual telnet session to port 80...

Try swapping the NIC. I had a similar problem with a 3C905 last year
where certain NFS transfers were blowing up. Drove me crazy! I dropped
in a cheezy NE2000 card to just test it out and everything cleared up.
At $24.95, it's the cheapest "commercial" diagnostic tool. ;)

-Steve

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