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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Local network setup problems
Date: 30 Apr 1997 09:59:22 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <5k2cu5$jc@nntpa.cb.lucent.com>,
jmcswain@lucent.com writes:
>
>
> HELP!
>
> I am trying to set up a Free BSD server with an SMC
> Elite ethernet card to talk to a W95 box with another
> SMC Elite card on a local
> network at home. I used the hardware jumpers to set
> the SMC card in the bsd box to 0x300,10,cc000 and during bootup used
> UserConfig to set these parameters for ed1. The
> system recognizes the card is there. W95 recognized
> the card and loaded the appropriate drivers using the
> software config setting on the SMC card.
>
> I ifconfiged the ed1 interface:
> ifconfig ed1 inet 10.0.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0.
> On w95 I set the IP address to 10.0.0.3 and set
> the netmask to 255.255.255.0. So far so good.
>
> I can see packets being
> transmitted (using netstat -I ) from either box
> but neither box will answer a PING. The send
> and receive lights on the SMC cards light up
> when a ping is sent on either end. The BSD box
> has the correct ethernet address for the w95 box
> so ARP seems to be working but still NO PING.
>
> Any ideas or advice would be welcome!
Do you know that the cables are ok ? When you ping from
10.3, try running tcpdump on 10.2 - see if the packet
arrives.
> Dale McSwain
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