From owner-freebsd-sparc Tue Nov 19 8:36:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 972D937B401 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 08:36:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from blackcomb.panasas.com (gw2.panasas.com [65.194.124.178]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85A8D43E42 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 08:36:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@pennasoft.com) Received: from waumbek (waumbek.panasas.com [172.17.2.36]) by blackcomb.panasas.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA18138 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 11:36:49 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Chris BeHanna Reply-To: chris@pennasoft.com Organization: PennaSoft Corporation To: sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: network errors Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 11:36:48 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <20021119131950.GM19604@isnic.is> <3DDA44F7.3020500@iaces.com> In-Reply-To: <3DDA44F7.3020500@iaces.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200211191136.48982.chris@pennasoft.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Olafur Osvaldsson wrote: > A short time ago I installed FreeBSD to sparc for the first time, > everything has been excellent except when I tried to set the hme > interface to 100MB-FD in the ifconfig setup at startup from rc.conf. > When I try that the interface goes up and I can ping the localhost and > the local IP address but am unable to get any traffic to or from the > network, the switch also shows the interface as up but sees no traffic > from it. > > If I on the other hand start the machine without the media and mediaopt > flags for ifconfig in rc.conf and run "ifconfig media 100baseTX mediaop= t > full-duplex" by hand after startup I have no problems and the interface > is fixed to that speed and duplex. > > System info: > > FreeBSD fundinn.rhnet.is 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #0: Tue Nov 19 > 11:45:38 GMT 2002 root@fundinn.rhnet.is:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERI= C=20 > sparc64 > > on Sun netra T1 This smells like a routing problem. Does the machine have a proper default route, or a more specific route to the network you're trying to reach? --=20 Chris BeHanna http://www.pennasoft.com=20 Principal Consultant =20 PennaSoft Corporation =20 chris@pennasoft.com =20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message