Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 14:12:50 +0800 From: "Jiawei Ye" <leafy@titan.seed.net.tw> To: <cjclark@home.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Odd ex0 Problem in 4.0 Message-ID: <001301bf987c$a65f18c0$040a0a0a@eurofront4> References: <20000327234659.F11538@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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I have exactly the same problem as you do, with my nic being DFE-500TX (de0) and my system cannot be waken up by tcpdump unfortunately. ----- Original Message ----- From: Crist J. Clark <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 12:47 PM Subject: Odd ex0 Problem in 4.0 > I installed FreeBSD 4.0 onto a i486DX that has an Intel EtherExpress > Pro NIC, ex0. The NIC has been acting weird with 4.0 where there > previously were no problems with 3.x. > > After I boot up, if I try to connect to or ping the 486 from others on > the LAN, there is no response, just, > > sendto: Host is down > > Messages. Likewise, if I go to the console of the 486 and try to ping > out, nothing. tcpdump(8) on one of the other machines shows silence > from the 486. However, this is where it gets strange... > > The 486 has, > > ex0: flags=843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX> mtu 1500 > inet 192.168.1.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 > ether 00:aa:00:a5:af:91 > > from ifconfig(8) and, > > ex0: <Intel Pro/10> at port 0x300-0x30f irq 10 on isa0 > ex0: Ethernet address 00:aa:00:a5:af:91 > > >From dmesg(8), but like I said, networking does not work. I start a > ping on one virtual console and get, > > sendto: Host is down > sendto: Host is down > sendto: Host is down > > On and on. Then, I go to another console and try turning on tcpdump. I > get, > > ex0: promiscuous mode enabled > > A few seconds of silence and then, "Boom!" ping packets are flying. If > I go back to the ttyv where I was pinging, suddenly things are > alive. When I turn off tcpdump, thing continue to work fine after we > switch back out of promiscuous mode. > > It seems like the network card is not being properly initialized by > the system. I have tried re-ifconfiging it, but the tcpdump seems the > only thing that wakes it up that I have found. > > Has anyone seen this? Anyone have a solution? Anyone have suggestions > for documenting it so it can be debugged and fixed? > > Thanks. > -- > Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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