Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 10:49:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Dave Andersen <angio@aros.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Interesting habit on a -current box Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960820104741.631H-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199608200513.XAA03387@terra.aros.net>
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On Mon, 19 Aug 1996, Dave Andersen wrote: > > How _odd_. Sounds like the Mac is hosing the ethernet or you've given the > > same IP to both machines. Mac's will crash and die if they figure out > > they have the same IP as another machine. > > That's about what I thought. It's odd, though, that the FreeBSD box > goes crazy. A look at dmesg shows that it can't even find the MAC > address of the ethernet card if the mac's turned on when it boots. I seem to remember having that problem before, but it's usually the Mac that craps out. In all cases it was an IP clash. Did you check that? > I'm marking it down to a crummy ethernet card or something weird on my > network, if nobody else has any ideas. Possibly. If you have a spare ethernet card laying about try it. > 10baseT, both machines go in to a hub. They're the only machines on > the network at the moment. OK. What are the machine's IP addresses and network settings? 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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