Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 13:50:51 -0800 From: Tim Baird <tim@print.gfmurray.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tcp/ip on ethernet problem Message-ID: <1.5.4.32.19961127215051.00a85450@print.gfmurray.com>
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At 06:30 PM 11/26/96 -0500, you wrote: >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 If it is tp between the gateway and the hub, try going to a twisted pair between your fbsd box and the hub. Sometimes the hub is fouls up the full duplex of tp and the 1/2 duplex nature of the coax.... > >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 > > > Tim Baird Dominus Fecit "The Lord Made" Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employer etc. etc
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