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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Sri Ramkrishna <sramkris@pdx206.intel.com>
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Subject: Re: question on ex0 driver.
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On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, Sri Ramkrishna wrote:

> 
> I have a question regarding the ex0 driver.  I'm using a Intel EtherExpress 
> 10 PnP on an ISA card.  I'm running into some problems networking it with
> another computer. (an old amiga 3000)  Here is what is puzzling me.  Under
> Windows 95, both computer can talk to each other.  They are pingable and
> everything.  However, when I switch to FreeBSD, both machines cannot
> see each other.  If I use tcpdump on FreeBSD, I can see that packets are
> leaving, but it sees no packets from the other computer.  Nor does the Amiga
> see the FreeBSD machine.  Whats going on here?  Bug in the ex0 driver?  We
> know the two boards can talk to each other, but only under win95.  Does
> anybody have an idea what this could be?  How can I do a broadcast?

Your routing may be confused.  Run 'netstat -rn' and make sure it's OK.

It took me forever to figure out how to do point-to-point Ethernet. It's
all routing.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
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