From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 1 05:09:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA20669 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 1 May 1997 05:09:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA20650 for ; Thu, 1 May 1997 05:09:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jumping-spider.aracnet.com (root@jumping-spider.aracnet.com [204.188.47.14]) by who.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id AAA10229 for ; Thu, 1 May 1997 00:34:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shelob.aracnet.com (sri@shelob.aracnet.com [204.188.47.2]) by jumping-spider.aracnet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA00251 for ; Thu, 1 May 1997 00:34:18 -0700 Received: from localhost by shelob.aracnet.com (8.8.5) id AAA08400; Thu, 1 May 1997 00:41:42 -0700 Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 00:41:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Sri Ramkrishna To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Can't see LAN using Intel EtherExpress Pro/10 In-Reply-To: <199705010421.OAA02743@solsbury-hill.home> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Thanks to those who responded earlier regarding my problems with the kernel not able to install the ex0 driver for my ethernet card. Now I have another problem. (FreeBSD is making me work to get my set up working I swear) I've been working on this but still haven't gotten this to work at all. Here is my problem: I'm trying to see the IP address 10.1.1.2 which is an Amiga connected by twisted pair to thicknet to the Amiga. Under windows 95, I'm able to ping the Amiga and the Amiga can ping my PC.(a nice rosy picture of machines pinging each other happily) This establishes the fact that the ethernet board is working and the line is clean between the two. (ie one end isn't unplugged in or something) Under FreeBSD, the packets does not even leave the computer. My /etc/hosts file contains: 10.1.1.2 sri sri.bharat.net 10.1.1.1 sima sima.bharat.net My /etc/sysconfig file has configured the network interfaces like so: hostname is set to sima.bharat.net network_interfaces="lo0 ex0" ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1" ifconfig_ex0="10.1.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00" routed,gated and similiar daemons have been turned off. Now as far as I understand, the driver for Intel EtherExpress Pro/10 does not support Multicasting. The Win95 driver does, thats the only difference I can think of. Does the fact that multicasting doesn't exist in the driver effect anything? On the Amiga side, I'm using just a plain TCP/IP stack, I've ifconfig'd the driver for 10.1.1.2 with the hostname set to sri.bharat.net. I can't think of anything else at this moment that would help. I think packets are just not going across the wire. What might be interesting is if I set the Amiga side to promiscious mode and see if it grabs any packets. I'm running FreeBSD 2.2, on a PPro 150Hz.. Thanks for any help! (BTW how do I subscribe to this list?) sri --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sri Ramkrishna /|\ Unix is very user friendly, its just very picky email: sri@aracnet.com -|- on who it is friendly to. -- Unknown? phone: 503-645-4868 \|/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |