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Subject: Re: My 3Com Etherlink III ISA 3C509 Card
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On Fri, 21 Mar 1997, fam Springer wrote:

> My name is Rink Springer, and I'm 13 years old. I am a member of The Young 
> Scientists (De Jonge Onderzoekers), Eindhoven, The Netherlands. 

Welcome aboard!

> I bought FreeBSD a few weeks ago, and I have a BIG (...) problem. I have a
> 3C509 Ethernet network card, and FreeBSD reconizes it perfectly. When I
> boot FreeBSD using my arranged kernel, 
> FreeBSD says it has the Ethernet address is 0020AF2F46C0. According to the 
> installation program on the disk, 3C5X9CFG, the Ethernet address is
> 00608C2F46C0. 
> As you see, there is a small difference between these results. When I load
> ftpd, it 
> bombs out with the error "socket operation on non-socket". 

ftpd is run from inetd.conf, don't run it manually.

> I tried to reload inetd, but it gives me a list of already used sockets,
> and ftp is in that list. When I use netstat -i (or -a, I can't remember),
> the number of packets on ep0, that's my 3C509 card, the number is always
> incrementing. Can you please help me solving this problem?

It should be incrementing, your system is talking to the rest of the
world.

A good acid test is telnet:  can you connect to ther machines okay?  I
think the Ether addr reported by FreeBSD is right and the setup program is
wrong.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major