NIC card works fine, but...

cool · n00b Joined: 15 May 2003 Posts: 51

OK after recompiling modules for the nic many time, i found the one that works. Its tulip btw (its weird the chip on the card says MX****).
Anyway i got it connected to the network. I can ping yahoo fine BUT...
If i let the ping goes for like few mins, i got data errors sometimes and the ping was like 1060ms.

So i let it keeps pinging and the errors occured frequently. So is it because of the card or the driver i compiled?? As i recall b4 i used other distro that has auto config nic, there wasnt error like this. And my main concern iis that i compliled the wrong driver.

Oh btw i'm just a newbie in Gentoo so please dont laugh at me : :oops:

Thanks
-cool-
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psp · Posted: Thu May 15, 2003 9:23 am Post subject:

No laughing here, I promise.

From my experience yahoo is not the most reliable network to test (especially if their mail servers are anything to go by

) - does this error occur if you ping your next hop (probably your isp's machines)

weltraumfahrer · Posted: Thu May 15, 2003 3:55 pm Post subject:

Hi,
ping to www.yahoo.com isn't good.
> host www.yahoo.com
www.yahoo.com CNAME www.yahoo.akadns.net
www.yahoo.akadns.net A 66.218.70.51
www.yahoo.akadns.net A 66.218.71.80
www.yahoo.akadns.net A 66.218.71.91
www.yahoo.akadns.net A 66.218.71.81
www.yahoo.akadns.net A 66.218.70.48
www.yahoo.akadns.net A 66.218.70.49
www.yahoo.akadns.net A 66.218.71.94
www.yahoo.akadns.net A 66.218.71.93

... this meens that there are 8 hosts for loadbalancing www.yahoo.com.

When the the loadbalance switch the host there may be a packet lost and also a delay.

Frank