Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 13:32:47 -0500 From: Walter Betancourt <walt@betan.com> To: Zoltan HERPAI <wigyori@2p.hu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems with ex0 Message-ID: <B0042620649@gate.tellurian.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0202231851050.6740-100000@se.pirospolip.hu>
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using 4.0 I found intel only reliable nic and have it in rc.conf as "fxp0" At 07:11 PM 2/23/02 +0100, you wrote: >Just installed a 'new' 4.4 fbsd on one of my boxes. It's main job will be >masquerading for my home network over a DSL line, but I've some problems. >The box has one interface, an Intel EtherExpress 10+ (ex0), connected to a >10mbps SMC hub, pulling up tun0 for DSL and transferring packages to the >rest of the machines over the hub. If it would work... > >Configured ex0 for 10.1.1.254, ifconfig says ex0 is 'UP, BROADCAST, >RUNNING, SIMPLEX', flags=843, but there is effectively no traffic, I >neither could ping any of the boxes of the localnet, nor any of the boxes >could ping him. At boot time, ifconfig says 'ex0 is not multicast capable, >IPV6 disabled', this is a little weird, I don't know if this is >responsible for unable to transmit anything to the box. Of course, the NIC >worked well under any other OS, like windows (sic!) and debian linux. >Browsing through the archives, I found a thread from Jeff Gray and Crist >J. Clark, telling that enabling PROMISC flag and then disabling it (f.e. with >tcpdump) 'wakes up' the NIC, but it didn't work. Any ideas? (I'm a >neither-newbie-nor-an-expert FBSD user, so please tell me step-by-step >what to do, and how ignorant I am ;| ). > >Thanks in advance, >Wigyori >Zoltan HERPAI > >P.S.: please cc the replies to me, I'm not subscribed to the list. (yet :) >) > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > Walt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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