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Date:      Thu, 2 Jul 1998 00:18:22 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Daniel Guetzkow <guetzkow@access.digex.net>
Cc:        "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: NIC card pings OK from host, but not from network side
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980702001519.18536X-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <01BDA2A5.6683D020.guetzkow@access.digex.net>

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On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, Daniel Guetzkow wrote:

> I am new to FreeBSD and networking, but was a system admin
> for Unix Sys V in the mid-1980s, pre-ethernet, or I should say
> when it was still too expensive for Motorola 68000 boxes.

:-)  Hard to imagine that the guts of UNIX boses is now in a printer.
(kicking LaserWriter II)

> Intel box, freebsd 2.2.6
> NIC card pings OK from host, but not from network side.
> 
> Card is ISA Intel EtherExpress Pro/10+. I assume that it
> can use the same driver as the Pro/10. (?) Mine has some
> flash rom feature.

Not necessarily.  I'm not familiar with the Intel ISA product line so I
don't know what the differences are. 

> I have two Microsoft machines on this same ethernet-- they can
> see each other OK-- they work fine. They are using
> Realtek 8029 cards with appropriate drivers. I swapped the
> Intel card for a junky NE2000 ISA knockoff card in the FreeBSD box and 
> "ifconfig -a" shows that it too is up & running, and have the exact same 
> problems. I tried other assigning other IRQs etc.

Hm, that points to either:

. link problem
. network parameter error
. routing

> I'd installed the novice version of 2.2.6 right from the CDROM,
> and ifconfig -a shows the NIC card as "UP...RUNNING" OK.
> netstat -r shows the card as the default gateway. I even added
> routes for the Microsoft hosts, but to no benefit. netstat shows
> routes are there.

Run a tcpdump and watch the hub activity light and see if the packets are
getting out.

You shouldn't have static routes for hosts on your local net.

> Ping on Microsoft shows 32 bits sent; ping on FreeBSD shows
> 56 bits sent. But I can ping out onto the internet from Microsoft
> just fine-- so I doubt that is a problem, but it is an anomaly.

Erm, should be 56 bytes...

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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