Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 10:19:54 +1000 From: Dave+Seddon <dave-sender-1932b5@seddon.ca> To: Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Testing Ethernet Ports Message-ID: <1125620395.33064.TMDA@seddon.ca> In-Reply-To: <20050901152714.GA62606@pit.databus.com> References: <9D2DBC148E2B4146BCC36C41DE9DFBFD066624E1@emss35m05.us.lmco.com> <20050901145814.GQ31769@localhost.localdomain> <20050901152714.GA62606@pit.databus.com>
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Greetings, You need a seperate routing table. Try using Xen (http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/), or there's a patch floating around for FreeBSD4.9. Dave Barney Wolff writes: > On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 09:58:14AM -0500, Will Maier wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 10:36:04AM -0400, Ames, Jonathan (N-ENSCO) wrote: >> > Can someone give me a hand with this? >> >> Here goes... >> >> > A PC has two ethernet ports, both directly on the motherboard. >> > Can I connect them externally with an ethernet cable and ping from >> > one port to the other to test them both? How? >> >> Lemme see if I parsed your question correctly: >> * box.A.nic.1 --cable--> box.A.nic.2 >> >> Is that what you're talking about? Sure. Use a crossover cable, >> assign each interface a different IP on the same subnet (eg 10.0.0.1 >> and 10.0.0.2) and ping from one to the other: > > I don't believe this will do what's wanted - the packets will not actually > go thru the NICs, as the OS is smart enough to realize that the dest is > internal. With a crossover cable (not required with gigabit nics) you > can't tell, so if you try it use a switch and look at the lights. > > -- > Barney Wolff http://www.databus.com/bwresume.pdf > I never met a computer I didn't like. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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