From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 27 10:20:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB69037B400 for ; Sun, 27 Jan 2002 10:20:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from potentialtech.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id g0RIFrF15217; Sun, 27 Jan 2002 13:15:53 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C5445D6.5020900@potentialtech.com> Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 13:24:22 -0500 From: Bill Moran Organization: Potential Technology User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010914 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mylasticposse@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status: no carrier References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Miles C wrote: > I searched the mail list archives and haven't found a mention of no > carrier status for the second NIC I put into the FreeBSD box. the first > is a 3com905 which is listed as xl0, the second is a FA311Netgear, > listed as sis0. If I plug the ethernet cable from the existing server > into one card, that card will show as being active, the other will show > a status of no carrier. Doesn't matter which card, only that the cable > from the server is inserted. however, I keep getting an error message > from ARP trying to access one IP address which I assigned to the box and > is getting a response from the wrong card. I am at work so I don't have > the exact error message or I would post that. "No Carrier" status indicates a cabling/hub/other network hardware problem. In my experience, 99% of the time it's a shorted/badly cut/otherwise broken network cable. More than likely, all your other problems/error messages are coming from this problem. At the least, you'll have a difficult time tracking them down as long as your cabling is suspect. -- Bill Moran Potential Technology http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message