Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 17:59:11 -0600 From: "Jonathan E. Lyons" <parrothd@midwest.net> To: Hooloovoo <xyzzy@ns.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: eirvine@tpgi.com.au Subject: Re: [Fwd: a little tcp/ip problem...] Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19980319175911.0091d2a0@midwest.net> In-Reply-To: <3511801F.6CBFA645@ns.net>
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Um...Don't waste the time, just spend the $30 and pick up an NE2000
compatible, it'll save you time and pulling your hair out. I always have
a few extra cards around to rule out hardware/drivers conflicts...
At 12:29 PM 3/19/98 -0800, Hooloovoo wrote:
>>>>
<excerpt>some more information:
i ran tcpdump again on BSD, with the -e switch to show link level
packets, and tried to ping it from NT. again, the hub showed activity but
no packets were received. this seems to me like a problem with the device
driver for the network card.
now, when i first went to install, i noticed in The Complete FreeBSD that
the driver for my network card was the ix driver. however, this driver
did not exist on the installation media. after poking around on the net i
found out that the ix driver had been superceded by the ie driver in a
previous version of FreeBSD.
is it possible that i have an earlier version of the EtherExpress 16,
which is not compatible with the ie device driver? and if so, is it worth
trying to track down the ix driver and try it?
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---[ Hooloovoo ]-----------
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Hooloovoo wrote:
> i need some help, and i am hoping you can either assist me or at least
point me in the right direction. i posted this same message to
comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc and to the FreeBSD.WWWBoard, but i haven't
gotten a response. ok, granted it's only been a couple of days...
>
> i installed freeBSD and i am having major trouble getting the network
to function. i have the BSD machine and an NT machine on a 10BaseT
Ethernet. the BSD machine has an Intel EtherExpress 16, which took a
while to get configured, but now seems to work properly. according to the
freeBSD handbook, and the output from ifconfig and netstat, everything
should be working.
>
> i believe the problem is NOT hardware, because if i reboot the BSD
machine into Win95 (uh! blasphemy!) both machines see each other just
fine.
>
> here is--roughly--what i have tried so far:
>
> ping from BSD
> -------------
> o no response
> o kick off tcpdump in background, try again
> - now I see arp frames (who-has/tell)
> o add NT arp entry on BSD, try again
> - now see ip frames (icmp echo request)
> - hub activity: Tx & Rx light BOTH ports
> - however no response comes back
> - NT shows no frames incoming
>
> ping from NT
> ------------
> o timed out
> o start utility which shows frame type and count, but that's all
> (unfortunately i could not find an NT port of tcpdump), try again
> - now I see arp frames (i assume who-has/tell)
> o add BSD arp entry on NT, try again
> - now see ip frames (i assume echo request)
> - hub activity: Tx light for BSD, Rx for NT (why only 2? and if so,
> i would expect them to be the other way around...)
> - no response comes back
> - BSD shows no frames incoming
>
>
> does anybody have any ideas? i am kinda stuck...it's a bit difficult to
install software without the network running :(
> TIA
>
> --
> ---[ Hooloovoo ]-----------
> --
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Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 15:29:22 -0800
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i need some help, and i am hoping you can either assist me or at least
point me in the right direction. i posted this same message to
comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc and to the FreeBSD.WWWBoard, but i haven't
gotten a response. ok, granted it's only been a couple of days...
i installed freeBSD and i am having major trouble getting the network to
function. i have the BSD machine and an NT machine on a 10BaseT Ethernet.
the BSD machine has an Intel EtherExpress 16, which took a while to get
configured, but now seems to work properly. according to the freeBSD
handbook, and the output from ifconfig and netstat, everything should be
working.
i believe the problem is NOT hardware, because if i reboot the BSD
machine into Win95 (uh! blasphemy!) both machines see each other just
fine.
here is--roughly--what i have tried so far:
ping from BSD
-------------
o no response
o kick off tcpdump in background, try again
- now I see arp frames (who-has/tell)
o add NT arp entry on BSD, try again
- now see ip frames (icmp echo request)
- hub activity: Tx & Rx light BOTH ports
- however no response comes back
- NT shows no frames incoming
ping from NT
------------
o timed out
o start utility which shows frame type and count, but that's all
(unfortunately i could not find an NT port of tcpdump), try again
- now I see arp frames (i assume who-has/tell)
o add BSD arp entry on NT, try again
- now see ip frames (i assume echo request)
- hub activity: Tx light for BSD, Rx for NT (why only 2? and if so,
i would expect them to be the other way around...)
- no response comes back
- BSD shows no frames incoming
does anybody have any ideas? i am kinda stuck...it's a bit difficult to
install software without the network running :(
TIA
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---[ Hooloovoo ]-----------
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