From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 11 17:53:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bryden.apana.org.au (bryden.apana.org.au [203.3.126.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46C3137B400 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 17:53:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from roadrunner (roadrunner.apana.org.au [203.3.126.132]) by bryden.apana.org.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f0C1qiA24527; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 11:52:44 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Message-ID: <023501c07c3b$d3e52b60$847e03cb@apana.org.au> From: "Doug Young" To: "Thorsten Trampisch" , References: Subject: Re: 3c509 detected but no connection to network Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 12:03:12 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Do you know for certain what interface the system is looking at ?? Most 509's came with RJ45, BNC, & often AUI as well & they don't auto-detect the interface well .... if at all. The way I've fixed this problem has been to download the DOS config tool from www.3com.com but I understand there is a unix version that was written by someone or other ..... no idea where to get it from though. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thorsten Trampisch" To: Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 11:29 AM Subject: 3c509 detected but no connection to network > Hi, > > I have a 3Com 3c509B installed with my FreeBSD 4.1 Release. > The NIC is detected normally and I can ping my own IP Address on the NIC. > But when I try to ping the PC on the other side of the network nothing happens. > > Does anybody know what the problem is and how I can solve it? > Thanks a lot for hints! > > Some information: > > /etc/rc.conf: > network_interfaces="lo0 ep0 auto" > ifconfig_ep0="inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0" > ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0" > hostname="freebsd1" > > /etc/hosts: > ::1 localhost localhost.trampisch.com > 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.trampisch.com > 192.168.1.1 freebsd1 freebsd1.trampisch.com > 192.168.1.2 freebsd2 freebsd2.trampisch.com > > ifconfig ep0: > ep0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 > inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 > inet6 fe80::210:4bff:fe48:fbdf%ep0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 > ether 00:10:4b:48:fb:df > media: 10baseT/UTP > supported media: 10base2/BNC 10baseT/UTP > > netstat -r: > Routing tables > > Internet: > Destination Gateway Flags Netif Expire > localhost localhost UH 1 16 lo0 > 192.168.1 link#3 UC 0 0 ep0 => > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message