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Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 11:10:13 +0930
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: "James E. Marker" <jemstone@ifx.net>
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Subject: Re: No Ether....
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On Mon, Oct 13, 1997 at 09:34:36PM -0400, James E. Marker wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 12, 1997 at 10:30:43PM +0100, Jim Marker wrote:
>> I have a Compaq Pent Pro 200 with 64 megs running FreeBSD 2.2.2.  I just
>> added a LinkSys Etherfast 100Base-TX card to it.  It is configured as
>> follows:
>>
>> de0:  flags=c843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,LINK2,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>>         inet 192.168.1.4  netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
>>         ether 00:40:05:36:b4:bf
>>
>> The hub sees the card and the card's leds say it is working at 10baseT
>> speed (which is what everything else is).
>>
>> The problem is that I can't get out to any other computers on my local
>> ethernet, and I can't ping to 192.168.1.4 from any other computer on the
>> local ethernet.  I can of course ping 192.168.1.4 and localhost from
>> 192.168.1.4.
>>
>> What is the c843 after flags mean?  All my other machines say 8843.
>
> It's LINK2.  Is this maybe the problem?  I've had a look at the man
> page and the source, but neither say what LINK2 does.  Try turning it
> off and see if things work.
> How do I turn off LINK2?  I have no idea.

# ifconfig de0 -link2

The - is turn off.  Without it, you turn it on.

Greg