Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 00:44:21 -0400 From: Walt Roberts <wroberts@med.wayne.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: TCP/IP thin Enet and Micros**T Win98 Message-ID: <37099125.45CFA507@med.wayne.edu>
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I am very sorry to trouble this list with this problem, but I'm at Witt's End. We have a single MS-Win98 system for doing things the hard way, mainly due to the software investment. This system was running Win95 until it crashed, burned and was salvaged by installing Win98. Data is back, life is almost good. We can't go back to 95 due to corrupt registries and other bad things. Problem: We need to talk to the FreeBSD 2.2.2 systems on the thin ethernet. Win98 took this away from us. (We have a work around -- dial in and use sz/rz, or ppp -direct but this is hokey and it's tying up phone lines). FreeBSD box is properly configured and is assigned pvt address 192.168.1.1, no DNS or other stuff to get in the way. Besides, its run for over 200 days without a glitch 24/7 no reboots and it talks to others (VAX/VMS -- yup we still use it). Win98 box is Via 503+/AMDk6/65 Mb mem. SMC EZcard 10 with SMC drivers (and who knows what other stuff MS shoved down its throat.) 1. If I ping the PC (192.168.1.100/mask 255.255.255.0) it talks to itself. 2. SMC drivers and debugers say the card works and is happy. 3. If I ping the FreeBSD box, I get request timeout. 4. If I ping the PC from the FreeBSD box, it reports 100% packet loss. 5. SMC doesn't supply a UNIX program to test transnetwork operations, and I don't have/don't want to make another windows box to try their stuff, besides it worked before and the appropriate lights light up on the cards at ping time. If anybody can point me in the right direction, since Microsoft's stock response is call your vendor and their response is call Microsoft, I would greatly appreciate it. Walt Roberts wroberts@med.wayne.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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