On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 16:07, Keith Mastin wrote:
> >Sorry, should have given more detail:
> >
> >If for example I use dhclient, tcpdump shows the broadcast packet from
> >the client.  However, I get an "send_packet: network is down" message.
> 
> Did you set up the routing table for the default gateway?

even then he would still be seeing some traffic in tcpdump(8) stdout

if it was a switch he'd see managment traffic on the vlan

if it was a hub he'd see everything on the segment 

when he sees nothing, you've got a layer 2 OSI / physical problem

it's all about the OSI process of elimination

-lava (soon to be CCNP i hope )

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