Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 08:24:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Vermillion <bill@bilver.magicnet.net> To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: connecting NT and FBSD via tcp/ip over ethernet Message-ID: <199806191224.IAA14306@bilver.magicnet.net> In-Reply-To: <199806190819.JAA01172@muswell.demon.co.uk> from ruth moulton at "Jun 19, 98 09:19:25 am"
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Recently ruth moulton said: > Hi, > I'm trying to connect an NT Workstation 4 Service Pack 3 pentium II > to a FreeBSD 2.1 running on a Pentium, over BNC ethernet, using > NE2000 compatable Kingston KT20 cards. .... > But I cannot get it going. The symptom is that, having configured it > all up, when I > ping the NT machine from FBSD, > arp -r on NT shows the correct ethernet address of FBSD > arp -r on FBSD shows incomplete instead of ethernet address of NT > and the ping itself reports 'sendto: Host is down' > > ping the FBSD machine from NT and it makes no difference to > arp tables on either machine, the ping simply reports > 'request times out'. I've seen this happen on an SCO <-> NT system - the exact symptoms. Replacing the NIC card fixed it. The NIC in the NT just wasn't 'right'. I say you might borrow a couple of other cards to try it out. Bill -- bill@bilver.magicnet.net | bill@bilver.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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