Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 08:27:29 -0800 From: Tanguy de Courson <tanguy@itninc.net> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3Com 3C509B Oddities Message-ID: <199902021627.IAA15404@mail.itnnet.com>
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you know i ran into the same problem. i tried to install 3.0-RELEASE with
this card and it dowloaded all of 5 packets and then just stopped.
i then installed 2.2.2 from an old cd and tried to cvsup and it kept
connecting to the cvsup server then timeing out. the card that was in the
machine before was an old ISA PNP card and for some reason FreeBSD would
not pick up the card no matter what i did. but it was working fine before.
does FreeBSD have a problem with the 3com 3C509B cards?
At 09:16 AM 02/02/1999 -0600, you wrote:
>Hi all,
> I ran into an interesting problem yesterday when running
>3.0-19990201-STABLE installation. While trying to perform a FTP install,
>my card seemed unable to respond to ip traffic. The card was set up in PNP
>mode (0x300, IRQ 10 detected in dmesg). The card seemed to setup
>correctly, assigned 192.168.0.32 as an IP, then tried to pass some ip
>traffic through it. I ended up with about 95% of the packets dropped, but
>the link light remained on, and some of the packets were getting through at
>their normal speed (0.6 ms).
> After fighting with it for a while, I went in with the 3Com config
>program, hard assigned these values into the card, diabled PNP, and
>restarted. This led to yet another interesting behavior, in this case the
>card seemed unable to talk through the firewall, the ping times were fine,
>but the ftp wouldn't work, in either active of passive mode. I have at
>least ten other machines behind the firewall and they were all working just
>fine.
> Finally I gave up and switched it over to public IPs, after which time it
>worked fine (public IP's are on a standard hub, private IPs are on a
>switch). Anyone have an explanation here? I can't figure it out.
> I also noticed that there were a number of kernel messages where IPs were
>switching between numerous MAC addresses (don't have the exact numbers, but
>I also noticed the same thing happening on the firewall). For example:
>
>On 3.0-STABLE box:
>... /kernel: 192.168.0.1 moved from 00:...:8f to 00:...:8e
>... /kernel: 192.168.0.1 moved from 00:...:8e to 00:...:8c
>... /kernel: 192.168.0.1 moved from 00:...:8c to 00:...:8f
>
>On Firewall (3.0-STABLE):
>... /kernel: 192.168.0.32 moved from 00:...:4b to 00:...:4d
>
>Anyone got any ideas? The firewall server is running 3.0 CVSup'ed probably
>2 weeks ago.
>
>Thanks,
>Ben
>
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