From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 26 15:34:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA08120 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 15:34:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (root@agora.rdrop.com [199.2.210.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA08113 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 15:34:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.ptd.net by agora.rdrop.com with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #17) id m0vSX0q-0008uOC; Tue, 26 Nov 96 15:34 PST Received: (qmail 26295 invoked by uid 0); 26 Nov 1996 23:30:36 -0000 Received: from cs5-3.cli.ptd.net (HELO workstation-1) (204.186.33.67) by postoffice.ptd.net with SMTP; 26 Nov 1996 23:30:36 -0000 Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19961126233024.00669130@postoffice.ptd.net> X-Sender: mgpr@postoffice.ptd.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 18:30:24 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Guy Silliman Subject: tcp/ip on ethernet problem Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello again my friends... I am back to you with difficulties with my machine.... I have built a fbsd 2.1.5 machine for hooking up to a lan with a gateway to the Inet. The machine is an AMD 133, with 20meg rem, a generic s3 video card, and an smc 8432bt pci ethernet card. I am connected to the lan on coax in to a tigerhub. The gate is a trailblazer backed by csu/dsu in to a t1. Enough of this... the problem is that I can not get a reliable ping to the gateway... I have everything setup fine with the kernel, best as I can tell, for the card. I am on the inet 204.186.107.0 I have the addresss .6, the gateway is .254 The arp information is all there, however when I ping to the gateway or any other machine on the network I get 90% loss on the ping... normally it takes 19 for the first response, then I don't see anything until I get to ping #39 or more... I don't think it is the cable, i have removed the segment of cable I am on, and went to a t tap that another machine... (running nt351) works from and has no trouble. I don't know what else to try at this point... I think it is either protocol troubles, cable troubles, or my card is in trouble. Any help will be greatly appreciated Guy Silliman