Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 01:12:38 -0700 From: Cherie & John Carri <cjcarri@earthlink.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, cjcarri@earthlink.net Subject: slooooow ping reply and 60% packet loss on 3c509 Message-ID: <3B875DF5.6C7FCF8A@earthlink.net>
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Hi all, I'm a FreeBSD newbie trying to get a FreeBSD web server going for use on a small local intranet. You can classify me as a layman with above average understanding of operating systems, but I'm no Unix sysadmn. With 'The Complete FreeBSD" clutched in one hand I successfully set up FreeBSD 4.2 on a 200 MHz Pentium (call it Samwise) with a 3c509 NIC . Default kernel settings seem to work, ep0 appears normal, and I configured the card to IP address 192.168.0.3. I can ping 192.168.0.3 from a terminal on the same computer (Samwise) with no problems; I am also running Apache on Samwise, and I can open up Netscape on Samwise, browse to http://192.168.0.3 and see the HTML pages I put in Apache's htdocs directory. So it appears that my NIC is operating correctly, and so is Apache. This computer is connected via a single crossover cable (no hub) to a Win98 machine (Frodo) with an SMC 1244TX 10/100 NIC. Frodo has IP 192.168.0.1. If I ping Frodo from the FreeBSD computer, I get nothing for up to *twenty seconds* (!), then about 60% packet loss after that. Using Netscape on Frodo to try to look at http://192.168.0.3 (i.e. at Apache on Samwise) times out with a "server down or unavailable" message. I swapped in a spare 3c509 card into the FreeBSD machine, same results. I hooked up my third computer (Bilbo, 192.168.0.2), also running Win98 and with an SMC 1244TX card, in place of the FreeBSD computer, and the two Win98 machines happily ping each other with no problems and sub millisecond reply times, i.e, my cable and the two SMC NIC's are okay, as are the software settings in the Win98 machines. What am I dealing with here? Is this a hardware problem with the old 10MHz 3c509 not playing nice with the supposedly auto-negotiating SMC 10/100 cards in deciding at what frequency to run the network, or do I need to change something in software? Something to do with allowed hosts? Suggestions? TIA, -John Carri To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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