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From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
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To: Volker Paepcke <pae@iis.fhg.de>
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Subject: Re: Support for Cogent eMaster+ 110 PCI Fast Ethernet card? 
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On Tue, 4 Jun 1996, Volker Paepcke wrote:

> > > de0 <Digital DC21140 Fast Ethernet> rev 18 int a irq 12 on pci0:15
> > > de0: DC21140 [10-100Mb/s] pass 1.2 Ethernet address 00:00:92:96:2a:7e
> > > de0: enabling 100baseTX UTP port
> 
> Sorry, I forgot to tell that the machine was running fine with
> a 3C509 ethernet card so I'm using the same routing configuration.
> I only switched the cards and changed all instances of ep0 to de0
> in /etc/sysconfig:
> network_interfaces="de0 lo0"
> ifconfig_de0="inet 77.2.16.107  netmask 255.0.0.0"

Hm.  That's interesting.

> ifconfig de0:
> de0: flags=c863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,LINK2,MULTICAST>mtu 
> 1500
>         inet 77.2.16.107 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 77.255.255.255
>         ether 00:00:92:96:2a:7e 
> 
> After further investigation I found some interesting facts from netstat -in:
> 
> Name  Mtu   Network     Address            Ipkts Ierrs    Opkts Oerrs  Coll
> de0   1500  <Link>00.00.92.96.2a.7e           20     0       59    39   570
> de0   1500  77          77.2.16.107           20     0       59    39   570

Other than the errors and excessive collisions, something doesn't look 
right here.  Do you need a default route?  

I'd look into those errors and collisions though.

> I got these values after trying some pings from and to this machine.

Quite a few pings it looks like.

> > > green LED is on and the yellow LED is flashing after starting a ping
> > > just like under NT but no packets seem to be transmitted or received.
> > 
> > This points to routing, usually.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major