simple networking question

[Atro Tossavainen]

Bill,

> To diagnose whether or not the NIC is working, plug it into your network and
> watch some traffic:
> 
> sudo tcpdump -i eth1
> 
> If you don't see any traffic (after "ifconfig eth1 up") then there's
> something wrong with the module perhaps.

This is making the assumption that there is some traffic in the original
poster's home network in the first place.  (You might want to check the
same on another machine that you know is working properly otherwise.)

Setting up a few Windows machines in the network is a great way to get
some background noise going if there isn't any to start with.

Of course, even without running tcpdump "ifconfig eth1" will show you
the amounts of packets received and transmitted by the interface so far,
plus the numbers of any error conditions that might have occurred.

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