[PLUG] Re: realtek nic

[रणजित भोसले]

> Try doing something like #ifconfig eth0 192.168.100.1 up
> Or simply try configuring pppoe on the card. If it works then your card 
> has been configured correctly.
> 
> Kaustubh
Hi,
With fixed IP instead of DHCP ifconfig gives

[root at hackerville ranjit]# /sbin/ifconfig
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:1273 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1273 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:1209442 (1.1 MiB)  TX bytes:1209442 (1.1 MiB)

ppp0      Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
          inet addr:219.65.88.68  P-t-P:202.54.10.56
Mask:255.255.255.255
          UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:697 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:774 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
          RX bytes:381309 (372.3 KiB)  TX bytes:116559 (113.8 KiB)

Is this good or bad? My point is nowhere is the realtek chipset being
named. So should I change this NIC? Sujata said he would change it,
naturally for some expensive thing like 3com which he was recommending.
My nic is not connected to anything.
Ranjit.