[ixp1200] Problems with Diagnostics...

[Austen McDonald]

	We at Tech are trying to debug some problems with our gigabit
ports: they've seemed to stop working (sending and recv'ing) suddenly and
there appears to be no reason for it. So, we decided to turn to the
diagnositcs.
	We updated the diagnostics (b/c the old version has known gigabit
problems) as per the release notes in SDK v1.3: we reinstalled the boot
image boot1200.bin overwriting everything and installing Diagnostics
v1.2.76.
	When we run the diagnostics, they fail on the gigabit tests;
nothing is sent or received except in one case: if the first thing you do
when you run the diagnostics is gigabit, internal loopback mode, run test
continuously, then 16 packets are sent--after that nothing and if you go
do something else (like an octal test or external loopback test) before
you try this test, nothing happens. However, the octal tests work. Does
anyone have any suggestions?

Austen McDonald
austen at cc.gatech.edu

God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. 
He integrates empirically.
  -- Albert Einstein