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From: Beech Rintoul <akbeech@anchoragerescue.org>
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To: Thorsten Trampisch <thorsten@trampisch.com>
Subject: Re: 3c509 detected but no connection to network
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 17:06:04 -0900
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I had the same problem, could ping the IP of the NIC but not the other end. 
Found that disabling plug & pray in the bios cured it.


On Thursday 11 January 2001 16:29, you wrote:
> 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<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> 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 =>
>
>
>
>
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