From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 29 16:21:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA14829 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 16:21:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from print.gfmurray.com ([207.6.88.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA14824 for ; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 16:21:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from client3.gfmurray.com (client3.gfmurray.com [207.6.88.13]) by print.gfmurray.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA01446 for ; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 16:22:47 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19961130002150.00692548@print.gfmurray.com> X-Sender: tim@print.gfmurray.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 16:21:50 -0800 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Tim Baird Subject: Re: tcp/ip on ethernet problem Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 08:35 PM 11/28/96 -0500, you wrote: >At 12:45 PM 11/28/96 -0800, you wrote: >>What is the ping/ftp/whatever performance between the NT box and the FBSD >>box? Are you able to swap the ethernet cards between these two boxes and >>compare? > > I do not get any response when pinging from the nt box to the fbsd box. >Unfortunately, I can not use the card in the nt box, not mine to swap with, >and I don't think it is a compatible card with fbsd anyway. Do you think it >is the card? I really don't have another card to put in... I'd rather not >buy another without any idea whether it will be the cure... We can establish that there is nothing wrong with the NT box, it talks to the gateway We can establish that there is nothing wrong with the cabling (coax problems generally affect everything on a segment Therefore, we can conclude: - A configuration error on the FBSD system - relative to the network - A flakey card You may want to post the following to me, - The interface configuration of your FBSD box (ifconfig -ax) - The routing table ... (netstat -rn) - The network and protocol configs of the NT system - Any further details about the gateway config (ip addresses, netmasks etc.) Another tool that you can use is tcpdump to examine the traffic on the ethernet. This may help indicate what - if any - traffic the card is able to see ... check the man page... > >Anyone got any other ideas? I really would like to get this machine up, but >have hit the cluelss point as far as my knowledge goes... > >Thanks... Guy > > > Tim Baird Dominus Fecit "The Lord Made" Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employer etc. etc