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From: Don Bowman <don@sandvine.com>
To: 'alexis georges' <floating_in_space_@hotmail.com>,
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Subject: RE: dhclient turns ethernet card off
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 10:36:30 -0500 
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> From: alexis georges [mailto:floating_in_space_@hotmail.com]
> hey guys
> we had a power cut yesterday..all went down at our home..
> when we got electricity back, my internet wouldnot work..only 
> my computer 
> atually..i found that my eth. card would not turn on..or 
> actually i just 
> foung out now..it does turn on until it get to the 'dhclient 
> dc0' lne in 
> rc.conf..which i need..basically during boot up it turns 
> on..and when it has 
> t exectute the dchlient line, the light on the card 
> disapears..its weird.i 
> have a linksys (LNE TX?)
> anyways the way i have to have my card going is by having 
> start_if.dc0 with 
> a line that turns my card to half-duplex (it needs to be like 
> this) and then 
> in the rc.conf i have the ifconfig_dc0="DHCP"
> anyone knoe what could cause my card to literally shut down 
> on dhclient?
> i already tried just in case to change PCI slots, but nothing 
> changed..
> thanks in advance

some routers disable ports if they see too many errors, e.g.
due to a duplex mismatch.
Is your router set to auto? and the NIC is as well?

--don (don@sandvine.com www.sandvine.com)
 

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