Subject: Re: very strange ethernet problem
To: Mark Abene <phiber@radicalmedia.com>
From: Jeremy Cooper <jeremy@baymoo.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 10/30/2000 18:45:55
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Mark Abene wrote:

> A simple test I've done is connect either or both Suns to the LAN, and do
> a "ping -s 1024 foo", from one local machine to another local machine.  It
> doesn't matter if one of these machines is one of the Suns in question.
> I immediately see collisions, and missed echo replies.  Tcpdump shows
> NOTHING while the collisions are happening, simply echo requests with no
> replies.  No other traffic.

Can you boot SunOS onto either of these machines and see if the problem
goes away?

-J