From owner-freebsd-net Fri Jun 19 05:39:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA01537 for freebsd-net-outgoing; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 05:39:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from magicnet.magicnet.net (root@magicnet.magicnet.net [204.96.116.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA01515 for ; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 05:39:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bill@bilver.magicnet.net) Received: from bilver.magicnet.net (uucp@localhost) by magicnet.magicnet.net (8.8.6/8.8.8) with UUCP id IAA29606 for freebsd-net@freebsd.org; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 08:33:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from bill@localhost) by bilver.magicnet.net (8.8.5/8.7.3) id IAA14306 for freebsd-net@freebsd.org; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 08:24:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Vermillion Message-Id: <199806191224.IAA14306@bilver.magicnet.net> Subject: Re: connecting NT and FBSD via tcp/ip over ethernet In-Reply-To: <199806190819.JAA01172@muswell.demon.co.uk> from ruth moulton at "Jun 19, 98 09:19:25 am" To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 08:24:17 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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