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Date:      Thu, 3 May 2001 12:48:38 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Larry Lile <lile@stdio.com>
To:        Jeff Vehrs <jwvehrs@hewitt.com>
Cc:        tokenring@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: oltr0: adapter not ready???!!!
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10105031246260.31973-100000@heathers.stdio.com>
In-Reply-To: <86256A41.00584266.00@lintng1.hewitt.com>

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On Thu, 3 May 2001, Jeff Vehrs wrote:

> Ethernet cards work beautifully with DHCP, but not with Token-ring card(Olicom -
> OC-3140). Why is that? Drive me
> crazy trying to figure out what's wrong with it. I have tried to use static ip.
> It works, but cannot see everything on the network. *sigh* I rather to use DHCP.

DHCP, like many other things, assumes that only ethernet packets exist in
the world.  It sees the token-ring packet as a broken ethernet packet and
ignores it.

-- 
Larry Lile
lile@stdio.com



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