From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 2 00:18:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA20884 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 00:18:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA20878 for ; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 00:18:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA27349; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 00:18:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 00:18:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Daniel Guetzkow cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: NIC card pings OK from host, but not from network side In-Reply-To: <01BDA2A5.6683D020.guetzkow@access.digex.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, Daniel Guetzkow wrote: > I am new to FreeBSD and networking, but was a system admin > for Unix Sys V in the mid-1980s, pre-ethernet, or I should say > when it was still too expensive for Motorola 68000 boxes. :-) Hard to imagine that the guts of UNIX boses is now in a printer. (kicking LaserWriter II) > Intel box, freebsd 2.2.6 > NIC card pings OK from host, but not from network side. > > Card is ISA Intel EtherExpress Pro/10+. I assume that it > can use the same driver as the Pro/10. (?) Mine has some > flash rom feature. Not necessarily. I'm not familiar with the Intel ISA product line so I don't know what the differences are. > I have two Microsoft machines on this same ethernet-- they can > see each other OK-- they work fine. They are using > Realtek 8029 cards with appropriate drivers. I swapped the > Intel card for a junky NE2000 ISA knockoff card in the FreeBSD box and > "ifconfig -a" shows that it too is up & running, and have the exact same > problems. I tried other assigning other IRQs etc. Hm, that points to either: . link problem . network parameter error . routing > I'd installed the novice version of 2.2.6 right from the CDROM, > and ifconfig -a shows the NIC card as "UP...RUNNING" OK. > netstat -r shows the card as the default gateway. I even added > routes for the Microsoft hosts, but to no benefit. netstat shows > routes are there. Run a tcpdump and watch the hub activity light and see if the packets are getting out. You shouldn't have static routes for hosts on your local net. > Ping on Microsoft shows 32 bits sent; ping on FreeBSD shows > 56 bits sent. But I can ping out onto the internet from Microsoft > just fine-- so I doubt that is a problem, but it is an anomaly. Erm, should be 56 bytes... Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message