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Date:      Fri, 20 Nov 98 15:31:01 +0100
From:      Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr
To:        patrick@cre8tivegroup.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Wollongong and FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <H000057c01a39190@MHS>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.981120085009.patrick@cre8tivegroup.com>

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Hello,

What gives a tcpdump trace of what happens on the wire (when the DOS box
boots, when it pings, when the BSD box pings ...) ?
TCP/IP in FreeBSD usually works well enough to use it to debug other
machines' problems.

	TfH

> Greetings all!
> 
> I'm setting up a system for a friend, and we are having a really tough
time
> getting one machine on the network.  The server is running
2.2.7-RELEASE and is
> running fine.  From Windows and FreeBSD machines, all the networking
goes fine.
> 
> But there is one DOS machine (the user hates Windows, but uses it for
DOS
> games), that refuses to get with the network.  It is using the
Wollongong
> Pathway TCP/IP stack with an NE2000 card to try to get onto the
network.  It can
> 
> ping itself fine, and the FreeBSD machine can ping itself, but neither
can ping
> each other.  But what is odd is that the DOS machine can get one packet
through
> the first time it's booted.  I know this because running a netstat -rn
shows
> the IP of the DOS machine, and, here's the odd thing, the hardware
address of
> the ethernet card.  I've not seen that before...
> 
> So the question I'm asking is:  Has anyone ever worked with
Wollongong's
> Pathway to put a DOS machine on the network?  Any pointers or
experience in
> this area?  
> 
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