From owner-freebsd-tokenring Thu May 3 9:49:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-tokenring@freebsd.org Received: from heathers.stdio.com (heathers.stdio.com [199.89.192.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92DA337B423 for ; Thu, 3 May 2001 09:49:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lile@stdio.com) Received: from heathers (heathers [199.89.192.5]) by heathers.stdio.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA88977; Thu, 3 May 2001 12:48:39 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lile@stdio.com) Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 12:48:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Larry Lile To: Jeff Vehrs Cc: tokenring@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: oltr0: adapter not ready???!!! In-Reply-To: <86256A41.00584266.00@lintng1.hewitt.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-tokenring@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-tokenring" in the body of the message