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I have a problem setting up an ethernet link between 2 machines.

On one machine (Linux) I have a Western Digital WD8013 card and on
the other a Novell NE1000 (ka9q NOS).

On the Linux machine I have configured the kernel to use the WD card
and at boot time I see:-

---- snip ---

eth0: WD80x3 at 0x300,  00 00 C0 29 23 24 WD8013, IRQ 10, shared memory
   at 0xcc000-0xcffff.

---- snip ----

The card is hard configured for port=300 irq=10

So the kernel is seeing the card correctly.

However after configuring the interface, doing 'ifconfig eth0'
I get :-

eth0      Link encap 10Mbps Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:C0:29:23:24
          inet addr 192.1.1.1  Bcast 192.1.1.255  Mask 255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING  MTU 1500  Metric 1
          RX packets 0 errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0
          TX packets 0 errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0
          Interrupt 10 Base address 0x310 Memory cc000-d0000

                                    ^^^^^

As you can see ifconfig thinks that the card base address has moved.
(This was done after a reboot thus explaining no RX or TX packets)

I cannot get the 2 machines to talk to each other despite :-

/sbin/route add -host 44.1.1.1 eth0

44.1.1.1 being the ip address of the other (nos) machine.

Kernel routing table:-

Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags MSS    Window Use Iface
localhost       *               255.255.255.255 UH    1936   0       80 lo
g8jvm2.ampr.org *               255.255.255.255 UH    193    512     57 sl1
g0orn.ampr.org  *               255.255.255.255 UH    193    512      1 sl0

44.1.1.1        *               255.255.255.255 UH    1436   0        0 eth0
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

44.131.7.0      *               255.255.255.0   U     193    512      6 sl0
44.131.17.0     g1wkk2.ampr.org 255.255.255.0   UG    193    512      1 sl1
44.0.0.0        g8jvm2.ampr.org 255.0.0.0       UG    193    512     44 sl1

I am using Kernel 1.1.33 and the latest version of the networking tools
(1.1.27) from sunacm.

The setup on the other machine has been tested at my salt mine,
talking to an hpux box and works ok.

Has anybody got any idea as to whats going on and how to fix it.
Particularly the moving card address.

Andy Pevy

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Quote:>I cannot get the 2 machines to talk to each other despite:
>/sbin/route add -host 44.1.1.1 eth0

BTW, you should use /proc/net/dev to check for Tx and Rx errors.

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