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Date:      Fri, 28 Dec 2001 14:17:10 -0800
From:      "Terry Thomas" <printery@blkft.com>
To:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: 3c509 nic, kernel, resulting confusion???
Message-ID:  <00d601c18fed$658c5000$0400a8c0@terry>
References:  <00ab01c18fea$07c736e0$0400a8c0@terry>

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Correction: It will ping 127.0.0.1 with a 7% loss but ping takes a long time
to start, pings to outside or my router come back 'send to: host is down'

----- Original Message -----
From: "printery-blkft" <printery@blkft.com>
To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 1:53 PM
Subject: 3c509 nic, kernel, resulting confusion???


> I'm running 4.4 stable with a 3c509c nic, i've csvuped and went thru
> buildworld, etc. with no errors and i've been trying to get it set up for
> over a week now and i've not been successful.
> I have a 56k frame with 16 ip#'s and a rh box connected to a cisco router
> that's up and i'm trying to get my fbsd box hooked via the switch to it
too
> but it won't even ping 127.0.0.1
> here's what i have set so far, maybe someone can help??
>
> in etc/rc.conf i've added...
> ifconfig_ep0="inet xxx.xxx.xxx.67" netmask="255.255.255.240"
> defaultrouter="xxx.xxx.xxx.65"
>
> device ep0 isn't in /dev and i've tried to add it with
> /dev/MAKEDEV ep0
> but it says device not present
>
> ifconfig -a gives me...
> ep0: flags=8843<UP, BROADCAST, RUNNING, SIMPLEX, MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> inet xxx.xxx.xxx.67 netmask 0xfffffff0 broadcast xxx.xxx.xxx.79
> inet6 fe80::260:8f:fe20:1cca%ep0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
> ehter 00:60:08:20:1c:ca
> media: Ethernet 10baseT/UTP
>
> netstat -rn gives me...
> 127.0.0.1                    127.0.0.1    UH    0    0    lo0
> xxx.xxx.xxx.64/28    link#1              UC   1    0    ep0
> Internet6 has these lines...
> fe80::%ep0/64           link#1          UC      ep0
> ff02::%ep0/32            link#1          UC      ep0
>
> dmesg has...
> ep0: <3com 3c509-combo etherlink III at port 0x210 irq 11 on isa0
> ep0: <ethernet address 00:60:97:e1:6b:e0
>
> etc/resolv.conf is...
> 127.0.0.1    localhost.xxxxx.com   localhost
> xxx.xxx.xxx.67  ns2.xxxxx.com    ns2
> xxx.xxx.xxx.67  ns2.xxxxx.com.
>
> etc/hosts is...
> domain xxxxx.com
> nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.66  (my redhat dns)
> nameserver xxx.xxx.xx.3 (my isp nameserver)
>
>
> What am I doing wrong??? or What am I missing?
> Needless to say, I'm new at this!  I was able to setup ppp with no problem
> but this ethernet/nic thing has me stumped!
>
> Thank You,
> Terry Thomas
>
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