Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 11:36:48 -0500 From: Chris BeHanna <chris@pennasoft.com> To: sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: network errors Message-ID: <200211191136.48982.chris@pennasoft.com> In-Reply-To: <3DDA44F7.3020500@iaces.com> References: <20021119131950.GM19604@isnic.is> <3DDA44F7.3020500@iaces.com>
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Olafur Osvaldsson wrote:
> A short time ago I installed FreeBSD to sparc for the first time,
> everything has been excellent except when I tried to set the hme
> interface to 100MB-FD in the ifconfig setup at startup from rc.conf.
> When I try that the interface goes up and I can ping the localhost and
> the local IP address but am unable to get any traffic to or from the
> network, the switch also shows the interface as up but sees no traffic
> from it.
>
> If I on the other hand start the machine without the media and mediaopt
> flags for ifconfig in rc.conf and run "ifconfig media 100baseTX mediaop=
t
> full-duplex" by hand after startup I have no problems and the interface
> is fixed to that speed and duplex.
>
> System info:
>
> FreeBSD fundinn.rhnet.is 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #0: Tue Nov 19
> 11:45:38 GMT 2002 root@fundinn.rhnet.is:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERI=
C=20
> sparc64
>
> on Sun netra T1
This smells like a routing problem. Does the machine have a
proper default route, or a more specific route to the network you're
trying to reach?
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