Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 14:59:02 -0400 From: Daniel Guetzkow <guetzkow@access.digex.net> To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: NIC card pings OK from host, but not from network side Message-ID: <01BDA2A5.6683D020.guetzkow@access.digex.net>
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Help! I am new to FreeBSD and networking, but was a system admin for Unix Sys V in the mid-1980s, pre-ethernet, or I should say when it was still too expensive for Motorola 68000 boxes. Intel box, freebsd 2.2.6 NIC card pings OK from host, but not from network side. Card is ISA Intel EtherExpress Pro/10+. I assume that it can use the same driver as the Pro/10. (?) Mine has some flash rom feature. I have two Microsoft machines on this same ethernet-- they can see each other OK-- they work fine. They are using Realtek 8029 cards with appropriate drivers. I swapped the Intel card for a junky NE2000 ISA knockoff card in the FreeBSD box and "ifconfig -a" shows that it too is up & running, and have the exact same problems. I tried other assigning other IRQs etc. I'd installed the novice version of 2.2.6 right from the CDROM, and ifconfig -a shows the NIC card as "UP...RUNNING" OK. netstat -r shows the card as the default gateway. I even added routes for the Microsoft hosts, but to no benefit. netstat shows routes are there. I can ping the NIC from the freebsd host fine. I cannot ping either of the two Microsoft machines, nor can either of them ping the FreeBSD host. It seems like some network layer or lower incompatibility? Shouldn't be.......even changed cables, and ran a Realtek utility from DOS boot to that box to demonstrate that cable was OK. Could the motherboard be problem? That same NIC DOS utility could not get either of the FreeBSD box's cards to talk to the Realtek cards. But the utility was not made for the Intel or NE2000 cards, so maybe it just wouldn't run. That was pretty disappointing, and really left me in the dark-- as the utility did not seem to be Realtek specific-- it purported to be for any NE2000 compatible card..... Ping on Microsoft shows 32 bits sent; ping on FreeBSD shows 56 bits sent. But I can ping out onto the internet from Microsoft just fine-- so I doubt that is a problem, but it is an anomaly. Comments? From: Daniel Guetzkow just click here: mailto:guetzkow@access.digex.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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