Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 09:19:25 +0100 (BST) From: ruth moulton <ruth@muswell.demon.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: ruth@muswell.demon.co.uk Subject: connecting NT and FBSD via tcp/ip over ethernet Message-ID: <199806190819.JAA01172@muswell.demon.co.uk>
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Hi,
I'm trying to connect an NT Workstation 4 Service Pack 3 pentium II
to a FreeBSD 2.1 running on a Pentium, over BNC ethernet, using
NE2000 compatable Kingston KT20 cards.
I don't really mind what protocols I get going, but have a
preference for tcp/ip to start with - I understand the protocols and
it will allow me to let the FBSD box be a router to the Internet
via my ppp dial in from there.
But I cannot get it going. The symptom is that, having configured it
all up, when I
ping the NT machine from FBSD,
arp -r on NT shows the correct ethernet address of FBSD
arp -r on FBSD shows incomplete instead of ethernet address of NT
and the ping itself reports 'sendto: Host is down'
ping the FBSD machine from NT and it makes no difference to
arp tables on either machine, the ping simply reports
'request times out'.
some things about the setup:
I'm using host tables on both machines, no DNS as yet
on FBSD, the ifconfig command is
ifconfig ed0 192.168.0.2 broadcast 255.255.255.0,
giving
ed0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 255.255.255.0
I'm using the private net number 192.168.0
on NT I only have the 'tcp/ip protocol' configured
on FBSD netstat -r shows
Routing tables
Internet:
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Netif Expire
localhost localhost UH 1 23 lo0
158.152.1.222 muswell UH 1 0 tun0
muswell localhost UGHS 1 0 lo0
192.168 link#1 UC 1 0
nt.home link#1 UHRLW 0 8 ed0 14
where nt.home is the nt machine
on someone's reccomendation I've tried it with the ethernet
board configured to both plug-and-play and NOT configured to PnP
on the FBSD box
the boards pass the receive/send hardware tests, and the appearance
of the FBSD machine's address in the NT's arp table, lead me to
believe the hardware and cabling are working.
I've looked through the mail archives and it's obvious that some
people have got this going, but not me!!!
tcpdump can't run (yet) as /dev/bpf is not configured on FBSD,
I presume that I need to remake the kernel, so will try doing this
and looking at the packets on the net,
but meanwhile I wondered if anyone had any suggestions - does this
look like hardware (I'm not averse to buying a couple of other
cards - they are cheaper than the time I'm spending on this!!!!!),
or software or....
many thanks in advance
ruth
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Ruth Moulton ruth@muswell.demon.co.uk
Consultant
65 Tetherdown,
London N.10 1NH, UK Tel:+44 181 883 5823
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