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Date:      Thu, 27 May 1999 22:52:56 -0400
From:      Brandon Fosdick <bfoz@glue.umd.edu>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Crossover Ethernet
Message-ID:  <374E0508.C82BDA02@glue.umd.edu>

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I've been trying for two days now to get two 3.2-S boxes talking to each other
with a crossover cable. After searching the archives it sounds like its an easy
thing to do, for everybody else at least.

Here's what I've been using.
Computer A:
P120, Intel EtherExpress 10/100 
ifconfig fxp0 inet 10.0.0.2 netmask 0xfffffffc
route add 10.0.0.3 10.0.0.2

Computer B:
P200, 3Com 3c509
ifconfig ep0 inet 10.0.0.3 netmask 0xfffffffc
route add 10.0.0.2 10.0.0.3

after doing the above, then type ifconfig fxp0, get "status: no carrier".
Thought that was the problem, so replaced fpx0 board with NE2000T (ed0) same
configuration  but get "device timeout" for every attempted access to the board.
man pages says that error is the result of an irq conflict, so I set ed0's irq
to 8. Same problem. Back to fxp0 board since it worked on the campus LAN (10
MBps) just a few days ago... What do I do about the "no carrier" message? 

Do I have two bad NIC's or am I doing something wrong?

Thanks,
Brandon
-- 
bfoz@glue.umd.edu
"In life there are those who steer, and those who push"
"I'm not impatient, the world is too slow"
"Life is short, so have fun, play hard, and leave a good looking corpse"


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