From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 20 10:49:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA20474 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 10:49:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts9-line6.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.87]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA20459 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 10:49:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA00750; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 10:49:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 10:49:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Dave Andersen cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Interesting habit on a -current box In-Reply-To: <199608200513.XAA03387@terra.aros.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 19 Aug 1996, Dave Andersen wrote: > > How _odd_. Sounds like the Mac is hosing the ethernet or you've given the > > same IP to both machines. Mac's will crash and die if they figure out > > they have the same IP as another machine. > > That's about what I thought. It's odd, though, that the FreeBSD box > goes crazy. A look at dmesg shows that it can't even find the MAC > address of the ethernet card if the mac's turned on when it boots. I seem to remember having that problem before, but it's usually the Mac that craps out. In all cases it was an IP clash. Did you check that? > I'm marking it down to a crummy ethernet card or something weird on my > network, if nobody else has any ideas. Possibly. If you have a spare ethernet card laying about try it. > 10baseT, both machines go in to a hub. They're the only machines on > the network at the moment. OK. What are the machine's IP addresses and network settings? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major