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I am using solaris 8 on a PC, have a question:

Q: I have a realtek 8029 network card, I copied "nei" and "nei.conf" files
from Solaris 7, and I add the driver in my Solaris 8. After "add_drv",
"drvconfig", "devlink", "reboot",  then I can find my NIC card in "ifconfig"
command. I set up the new ip address 182.25.1.5 to nei0. I can ping it now.
But when try to ping other computer, it failed. I can ping other PC in
windows 98, it's mean the network has no problems. I think the problem is in
Solaris, but where is it? I tried to used "ifconfig" to add a broadcast
address, it's failed, but I don't know what's mean?

# ifconfig -a
lo0: flags=1000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 8232 index 1
 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
nei0: flags=1000851<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 2
 inet 182.25.1.5 --> 127.0.0.1 netmask ffffff00
 ether 52:54:ab:13:53:fc

# ping -s 182.25.1.5
PING 182.25.1.5: 56 data bytes
64 bytes from ccwl (182.25.1.5): icmp_seq=0. time=0. ms
64 bytes from ccwl (182.25.1.5): icmp_seq=1. time=0. ms

----182.25.1.5 PING Statistics----
7 packets transmitted, 7 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip (ms)  min/avg/max = 0/0/0

# ping 182.25.1.2
ICMP Host Unreachable from gateway ccwl (182.25.1.5)
 for icmp from ccwl (182.25.1.5) to 182.25.1.2
ICMP Host Unreachable from gateway ccwl (182.25.1.5)
 for icmp from ccwl (182.25.1.5) to 182.25.1.2

# ifconfig nei0 broadcast 182.25.1.255
ifconfig: SIOCSLIFBRDADDR: nei0: Cannot assign requested address
#

I see nothing obvious, but I would ping in both directions and type "arp -a" on
both to see if it at least got the IP address of the other box.  Also try
"netstat -rn" to verify your NIC is in the routing table.

(snip)

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Dan Anderson          anderson

California, USA     computer.org