Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 18:15:29 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@leland.Stanford.EDU> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network Connection Not Working Message-ID: <19970930181529.09285@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970930011927.22262A-100000@elaine39.Stanford.EDU>; from Annelise Anderson on Tue, Sep 30, 1997 at 01:41:42AM -0700 References: <19970930165424.08430@lemis.com> <Pine.GSO.3.96.970930011927.22262A-100000@elaine39.Stanford.EDU>
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On Tue, Sep 30, 1997 at 01:41:42AM -0700, Annelise Anderson wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Greg Lehey wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Sep 29, 1997 at 11:26:02PM -0700, Annelise Anderson wrote:
>
>>> Sep 29 20:03:49 andrsn /kernel: 1 3C5x9 board(s) on ISA found at 0x300
>>> Sep 29 20:03:49 andrsn /kernel: ep0 at 0x300-0x30f irq 10 on isa
>>> Sep 29 20:03:49 andrsn /kernel: ep0: aui/utp/bnc[*BNC*] address 00:20:af:be:eb:e0
>>
>>> So here is some output-- my current guess is that wire that goes
>>> from the Ethernet card connector (10-Base-2)
>>
>> 10-Base 2? Your boot message says BNC. How do you configure the
>> interface? Do you set the link flags specifically? I don't see
>
> Well, Nemeth et.al. describes 10BASE2 as "...coaxial cable with BNC
> connectors...." Maybe that's not the same "BNC." I just know it's
> not an RJ-45.
Right. I'm sleeping. Yes, of course it's the same thing. I tend to
use the terms "BNC", "coax", or "RG58" for this, and "10-Base T" for
UTP. Thus the confusion.
> I don't do anything except what's in rc.conf:
>
> ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1" # default loopback device configuration.
> ifconfig_ep0="inet 36.33.0.163 netmask 255.255.0.0"
> ifconfig_ppp0="inet 36.33.0.157 netmask 255.255.255.255"
No, that's fine, it's my misunderstanding.
>> This won't cost you much, and you can do it from where you are
>> (assuming you haven't gone to bed yet).
>
> I tried it--it didn't change anything. Thanks for the quick
> response. I think I will take my wire cutters to work tomorrow :)
I still don't see why you need wire cutters. If this is coax, the two
most likely causes are:
1. Somebody tripped over a cable somewhere and split the network into
two non-functional halves.
2. Somebody removed a terminator.
See if the other machines on the net work first. You may have a fair
amount of debugging ahead of you.
Greg
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