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>> Dell PE1950 III
>>
>> frebsd 7.1 AMD64 (to get support of full 4 GB RAM)
>>
>> After fresh 7.1 install, and boot, ifconfig shows bc0 active and 1000 Mb/sec, but cannot ping anything.
>>
>> replaced cables, tried the other bc nic, nothing.
>>
>> Linux in 3 other same machines works fine.
>>
>
>Could you paste the output of the following:
>
>   cat /etc/rc.conf | grep bc0

sorry, is bce not bc, 

ifconfig_bce0="inet 10.2.17.8 netmask 255.255.0.0"

>and output from:
>
>   dhclient bc0

I ran that on a local machine and it hung up the interface, requiring a warm reboot.

I'll see what happens with my client's machine.

Len

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>
>-- 
>Glen Barber
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