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From: Eduardo Viruena Silva <mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx>
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Subject: Re: interface woes, interface is up and has an ip assigned to it,
 but it cannot ping out and it can't be pinged
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On Mon, 19 May 2003, Bsd Neophyte wrote:

> alright, this problem is a bit weird.
>
> i rebuilt the kernel and included the parameters for the 2 AMD NIC's in
> the system.  now, ifconfig shows them to be pcn0 and pcn1.  i assigned
> them their ip addresses in rc.conf.
>
> now, for some reason, i cannot ping the interface from another system and
> i cannot ping another system from the FreeBSD box through either of the
> NIC's.  i can however ping the NIC's themselves from the FreeBSD box.
>
> when i plug the cat5 cable into either jack and run "ifconfig" the status
> changes from "no carrier" to "active".
>
> what further confuses me is that there is no entry for either pcn0 or pcn1
> in /dev.  when i try "sh MAKEDEV pcn0" or "sh MAKEDEV pcn1" i get the
> following message:
>
> pcn0 (or pcn1) - no such device name.
>
> i don't know if the two are related or unrelated.
>
> can anyone help me out with this one?
>


It can be silly but... here it goes:

Are the wires connected where they are supposed to be?
I mean, do you know  which of your nics  is pcn0 and which is pcn1 ?

... It happened to me.