Checking internet connection without a winbox
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Sun Jul 2 21:59:47 UTC 2006
On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 16:20, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> I'll look into the duplex problem, but where do I start? I did a bit
> of googling but I apparently don't know which keywords to google. How
> can I check linux's duplex setting, and how can I check the routers?
> Here, this may help:
> $ ifconfig
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C1:26:02:91:50
> inet addr:192.168.123.131 Bcast:192.168.123.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> inet6 addr: fe80::2c1:26ff:fe02:9150/64 Scope:Link
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:90596 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:82693 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> RX bytes:88603039 (84.4 MiB) TX bytes:12217393 (11.6 MiB)
> Interrupt:11 Base address:0xf00
The '0 errors' part looks good. If you see an equivalent on
the router side you are probably OK locally.
> > Try to find something that shows traffic and errors on the router
> > side. And if the errors are on the next hop out past the router,
> > report that to your isp.
>
> Wouldn't mtr do that? But I need to correct or eliminate the router first.
I don't think I believe what mtr says. Try running it with an
address just one or two hops out.
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Les Mikesell
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