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Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 13:32:47 -0500
To: Zoltan HERPAI <wigyori@2p.hu>
From: Walter Betancourt <walt@betan.com>
Subject: Re: problems with ex0
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using 4.0 I found intel only reliable nic and

have it in rc.conf as   "fxp0"


At 07:11 PM 2/23/02 +0100, you wrote:
>Just installed a 'new' 4.4 fbsd on one of my boxes. It's main job will be
>masquerading for my home network over a DSL line, but I've some problems.
>The box has one interface, an Intel EtherExpress 10+ (ex0), connected to a
>10mbps SMC hub, pulling up tun0 for DSL and transferring packages to the
>rest of the machines over the hub. If it would work...
>
>Configured ex0 for 10.1.1.254, ifconfig says ex0 is 'UP, BROADCAST,
>RUNNING, SIMPLEX', flags=843, but there is effectively no traffic, I
>neither could ping any of the boxes of the localnet, nor any of the boxes
>could ping him. At boot time, ifconfig says 'ex0 is not multicast capable,
>IPV6 disabled', this is a little weird, I don't know if this is
>responsible for unable to transmit anything to the box. Of course, the NIC
>worked well under any other OS, like windows (sic!) and debian linux.
>Browsing through the archives, I found a thread from Jeff Gray and Crist
>J. Clark, telling that enabling PROMISC flag and then disabling it (f.e. with
>tcpdump) 'wakes up' the NIC, but it didn't work. Any ideas? (I'm a
>neither-newbie-nor-an-expert FBSD user, so please tell me step-by-step
>what to do, and how ignorant I am ;| ).
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Wigyori
>Zoltan HERPAI
>
>P.S.: please cc the replies to me, I'm not subscribed to the list. (yet :)
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