On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 16:00:45 -0400 m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Richard Reina wrote: > > Look like there are some errors although I am not sure what the > > mean. > > > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:D0:B7:5A:C6:FE > > inet addr:192.168.0.5 Bcast:192.168.0.255 > > Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::2d0:b7ff:fe5a:c6fe/64 > > Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > > RX packets:2316067887 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:1 > > frame:1 TX packets:2451037674 errors:3 dropped:0 overruns:0 > > carrier:3 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 > > RX bytes:221599111550 (206.3 GiB) TX bytes:575914174697 > > (536.3 GiB) > > > > Cable seems fine and machine is in a dark room (no sunlight) > > although it does run through the ceiling. > > > Please stop top posting. People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. Complaining about top posting and then not trimming everything you're not replying to (like below) is just as bad... > I'm not sure, but overrun? Frame? Not sure. Cabling goes into the > ceiling... was there any wiring or HVAC work done lately, where the > cables might run? > > mark > > > > 2012/8/22 <m.roth at 5-cent.us> > > > >> Richard Reina wrote: > >> > I have a simple perl script that every few hours pings the > >> > handful of machines on my LAN. Lately I've sometimes been getting > >> > > >> > ping of 192.168.0.1 succeeded > >> > ping of 192.168.0.7 succeeded > >> > ping of 192.168.0.5 FAILED > >> > ping of 192.168.0.6 succeeded > >> > ping of 192.168.0.9 succeeded > >> > > >> > This machine in question has been running Centos faithfully for > >> about > >> > six years and no recent changes to it have been made. When I try > >> > and > >> ping the > >> > machine manually it works. /var/og/messages does not seem > >> > irregular. Does anyone know know what might be the problem or > >> > what else I might > >> check? > >> > >> Have you done an ifconfig on 5, and seen if there's any > >> collisions, etc? Another possibility is that *you* haven't > >> changed, but someone else has put a piece of hardware on the LAN > >> that's trying to get that IP, or has it > >> configured for that IP. > >> > >> mark, who *really* wishes that the network folks would give > >> their hardware IPs by MAC, not broadcast > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> CentOS mailing list > >> CentOS at centos.org > >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS at centos.org > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Spiro Harvey Knossos Networks Ltd (04) 460-2531 : (021) 295-1923 www.knossos.net.nz -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20120823/6e7dfa7a/attachment-0005.sig>