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Date:      Fri, 20 Nov 1998 11:27:14 +0900
From:      "Tetsuji Rai" <caq23050@pop17.odn.ne.jp>
To:        <Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: network connection
Message-ID:  <000801be142d$61f23660$57f6fea9@tetsujir>

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I found a strange phenomenon.  Althoough ping fails, telnet is available.
But it's extremely slow and impractical.  I must wait 10-20 secs until the
next prompt appears.   So I suspect some internal problem.  I've read
somewhere that ep0 device driver is buggy.

-Tetsuji
-----Original Message-----

>hello
>
>Could you send the output of the following commands :
>ifconfig -a
>dmesg
>netstat -rn
>(on each of the two computers)
>
> TfH
>
>>
>> I'm thinking of connecting 2 computers by ether net (10BASE2)., one of
>which
>> is connected to Internet by PPP.  This is mentioned in the handbook,
>but I
>> cannot get it to work.  Like following
>> [local2] <-ether-> [local1]  <-ppp-> [ISP]
>>
>>  First of all, 2 computers cannot be connected.  On local1,
>> ifconfig ep0 inet 10.0.0.1 link1    (ep0 means 3c509, link1 specifies
>BNC)
>> is executed.  On local2
>> ifconfig ep0 inet 10.0.0.2 link2
>> is executed.  But these two machines are not connected (ie. even ping
>> doesn't work)
>> Furthermore, after executing
>> route add default 10.0.0.1
>> on local2, some programs like xterm doesn't run properly.
>>   Any help I can get would be appreciated.
>>
>> -Tetsuji
>>
>>
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