by could someone please help. i installed freeBSD and i am having major
trouble getting the network to function. i have the BSD machine and an
NT machine on a 10BaseT Ethernet. the BSD machine has an Intel
EtherExpress 16, which took a while to get configured, but now seems to
work properly. according to the freeBSD handbook, and the output from
ifconfig and netstat, everything should be working.
i believe the problem is NOT hardware, because if i reboot the BSD
machine into Win95 (uh! blasphemy!) both machines see each other just
fine.
here is--roughly--what i have tried so far:
ping from BSD
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o no response
o kick off tcpdump in background, try again
- now I see arp frames (who-has/tell)
o add NT arp entry on BSD, try again
- now see ip frames (icmp echo request)
- hub activity: Tx & Rx light BOTH ports
- however no response comes back
- NT shows no frames incoming
ping from NT
------------
o timed out
o start utility which shows frame type and count, but that's all
(unfortunately i could not find an NT port of tcpdump), try again
- now I see arp frames (i assume who-has/tell)
o add BSD arp entry on NT, try again
- now see ip frames (i assume echo request)
- hub activity: Tx light for BSD, Rx for NT (why only 2? and if so,
i would expect them to be the other way around...)
- no response comes back
- BSD shows no frames incoming
does anybody have any ideas? i am kinda stuck...
TIA
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