Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 21:34:36 -0400 From: "James E. Marker" <jemstone@ifx.net> To: "'Greg Lehey'" <grog@lemis.com> Cc: "FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: No Ether.... Message-ID: <01BCD81F.D1FC7420@ip94.ifx.net>
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How do I turn off LINK2? I have no idea. Thanks... Jim! -----Original Message----- From: Greg Lehey [SMTP:grog@lemis.com] Sent: Sunday, October 12, 1997 11:19 PM To: Jim Marker Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No Ether.... On Sun, Oct 12, 1997 at 10:30:43PM +0100, Jim Marker wrote: > I have a Compaq Pent Pro 200 with 64 megs running FreeBSD 2.2.2. I just > added a LinkSys Etherfast 100Base-TX card to it. It is configured as > follows: > > de0: flags=c843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,LINK2,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > inet 192.168.1.4 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 > ether 00:40:05:36:b4:bf > > The hub sees the card and the card's leds say it is working at 10baseT > speed (which is what everything else is). > > The problem is that I can't get out to any other computers on my local > ethernet, and I can't ping to 192.168.1.4 from any other computer on the > local ethernet. I can of course ping 192.168.1.4 and localhost from > 192.168.1.4. > > What is the c843 after flags mean? All my other machines say 8843. It's LINK2. Is this maybe the problem? I've had a look at the man page and the source, but neither say what LINK2 does. Try turning it off and see if things work. Greg
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