Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 22:07:52 -0500 From: "Joe & Fhe Barbish" <barbish@a1poweruser.com> To: "FBSD Questions" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Is this ping normal? Message-ID: <LPBBIGIAAKKEOEJOLEGOKEMJCMAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com>
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Using a FBSD 4.4 box with a generic install where the only thing customized is the Nic card as full duplex and Ip assigned using ifconfig, connected with a crossover cable to a Winbox with it's Nic card configured full duplex with IP address and other associated items hard coded in the windows networking configuration. No matter which way I ping, FBSD to Win or Win to FBSD I get 2 to 4 timed out packets out of 10, or 8 to 15 out of 100. There is nothing else going on in these machines except that ping. This just does not seem right. I have pinged IP addresses of places in Honk Kong and get no timed out packets so what is the problem with 10 feet of cable between my server and the Winbox? I started with a gateway/natd/firewalled/user ppp system that just seemed to have slow LAN response times. So function by function I deactivated things to isolate the problem. Now I am at the simplest environment I can think of and still the dedicated LAN is dropping packets. This seems wrong to me. I replaced the crossover cable with normal LAN cables going through a stand-a-lone network switch and still the same results. I put the FBSD install on a different PC with a different motherboard and used this new server to a different Winbox, same results. I would think that if I had the Winbox Nic card incorrectly configured I would get no response. I have a 3com 3C980B-TX Nic in the server (xl0) and a Macronix (dc0) in the win box. Am I making a big thing out of something that is normal? Is there some simple thing I am over looking? Thanks for you help Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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