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Date:      Mon, 13 Oct 1997 12:49:26 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Jim Marker <jemstone@ifx.net>
Cc:        "FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: No Ether....
Message-ID:  <19971013124926.36249@lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <3441417D.E863FEE@ifx.net>; from Jim Marker on Sun, Oct 12, 1997 at 10:30:43PM %2B0100
References:  <3441417D.E863FEE@ifx.net>

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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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