From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 7 15:52:18 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id PAA00329 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 7 Mar 1995 15:52:18 -0800 Received: from who.cdrom.com (Who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA00323 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 1995 15:52:17 -0800 Received: from cdrom.com (wc.cdrom.com [192.216.223.37]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) with SMTP id PAA03500 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 1995 15:51:36 -0800 Received: by cdrom.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA10221; Tue, 7 Mar 95 15:52:07 PST Received: from nastg.gsfc.nasa.gov by cdrom.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA10107; Tue, 7 Mar 95 15:36:18 PST Received: from impatiens by nastg.gsfc.nasa.gov (8.6.9/1.35) id XAA22030; Tue, 7 Mar 1995 23:38:32 GMT Date: Tue, 7 Mar 1995 23:38:32 GMT Message-Id: <199503072338.XAA22030@nastg.gsfc.nasa.gov> X-Sender: tjeffers@nastg X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: support@cdrom.com From: tjeffers@nastg.gsfc.nasa.gov (Anthony Jefferson) Subject: LAN Configuration Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, I recently installed FreeBSD 2.0 on a 486 66mhz machine with the following hardware: Adaptec 1542 SCSI controller, Toshiba 3x CDROM (SCSI), Python 4mm tape (SCSI), 540 mb IDE disk, 3COM 3C509 ethernet The installation went smoothly and everything appears to work fine except the LAN. When BSD boots up the 3c509 is recognized and the interrupt and and address appear correctly. When I do an ifconfig ep0, it responds with UP, RUNNING, BROADCAST, NOTRAILER, and SIMPLEX, pretty much what other Unix platforms show. What does SIMPLEX mean in this context? We are currently testing this system on a closed network with a Sun and Dec Alpha. However, when I ping another host from the BSD box the ping times-out. However, I can ping the BSD box from itself. We are not running NIS or YP and want to use the local /etc/hosts file for routing. If you could provide some direction, or the location of a applicable FAQ, I would appreciate the help. Thanks. If you receive more than one copy of this, I apologize, Eudora doesn't like my typing much. ******************************************************************************* * Anthony C. Jefferson Phone:(301)794-2895 FAX:(301) 794-9530 * Computer Sciences Corp. 7700 Hubble Drive Lanham-Seabrook Md. 20706 * E-MAIL:tjeffers@nastg.gsfc.nasa.gov 8-{) *******************************************************************************