and when i run sudo chrt 99 ping -i .001 -q 10.10.10.10 command, the green lights are cycling on the 7i96s, as they should but that red light is on and now it drops all the packets.
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 ::1/128 scope host noprefixroute
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: enp4s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether e8:4e:06:ab:32:b0 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 10.10.10.1/24 brd 10.10.10.255 scope global enp4s0
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: enp5s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether a4:1f:72:67:47:1f brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 10.0.0.2/24 brd 10.0.0.255 scope global dynamic noprefixroute enp5s0
valid_lft 83656sec preferred_lft 83656sec
inet6 fe80::a61f:72ff:fe67:471f/64 scope link noprefixroute
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
4: wlp3s0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state DOWN group default qlen 1000
link/ether fa:39:7b:39:5a:42 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff permaddr 9c:2a:70:32:72:49
i set the netmask in /etc/network/interfaces to 24 with no effect.
still no communication with ping. Destination host unreachable but the green lights cycle on the board