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Date:      Fri, 19 Jun 1998 08:24:17 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Bill Vermillion <bill@bilver.magicnet.net>
To:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: connecting NT and FBSD via tcp/ip over ethernet
Message-ID:  <199806191224.IAA14306@bilver.magicnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <199806190819.JAA01172@muswell.demon.co.uk> from ruth moulton at "Jun 19, 98 09:19:25 am"

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Recently ruth moulton said:
> 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.
....
> 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'.

I've seen this happen on an SCO <-> NT system - the exact symptoms.
Replacing the NIC card fixed it.  The NIC in the NT just wasn't
'right'.  I say you might borrow a couple of other cards to try it
out.

Bill
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