Subject: Re: Farallon 10/100 the answer?
From: Jeff Tupholme (jeff.tupholme@openmethods.com)
Date: Mon Feb 12 2001 - 14:24:54 MST
Thanks for this very useful information.
I have set up eth1 (Farallon NetLINE 10/100 PCI PN993-TX) using a fixed IP
address (the machine doesn't seem too happy under either Linux or MacOS
using DHCP) and can now see eth0, eth1 & lo in ifconfig. route also looks
good. However, that's as far as it goes!
In more detail, I have eth0 = 10.0.1.240 and eth1 = 10.0.2.241. The two
ports are connected to separate segments of my network that I have set up
for testing purposes (i.e., 10.0.1.* and 10.0.2.*).
I can happily ping other machines on 10.0.1.*; eth0 is automatically
selected according to the route data. However, pinging 10.0.2.* machines
doesn't work. eth1 is selected properly (i.e., 10.0.2.241 is shown in the
ping feedback), but no echoes come back. Likewise, I can't ping to
10.0.2.241 from other machines on that segment.
In fact, the lights don't even come on either on the card or the hub!
There is no problem using the card from MacOS so I know this is not a
hardware problem. I am mystified that Linux recognises the card during
boot, can 'bring it up', can accept my configuration, but can then fail so
completely to actually use it! Is it normal to get this far and still not
be able to succeed?
Thanks for any advice,
Jeff
P.S., I have found linuxconf very poor on YDL CS 1.2 on PPC. Maybe I am
using it wrongly but it doesn't seem to remember config changes!
>Hi Jeff,
>
>First thing to try would be typing this:
>
>ifup eth1
>
>You should either get an "OK" message or an error stating that you aren't
>using the command correctly (usage: ifup <device name>).
>
>If you get the "usage" error, then there aren't any scripts created for your
>NIC most likely. Check this by going to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ and
>looking to see what is there. You'll see a file called ifcfg-eth0. This is
>your config script for eth0. Here's an example file:
>
>DEVICE=eth0
>BOOTPROTO=static
>ONBOOT=yes
>IPADDR=142.30.xxx.xxx
>NETMASK=255.255.255.0
>GATEWAY=142.30.xxx.xxx
>HOSTNAME=ccmf1.vcc.bc.ca
>DOMAIN=vcc.bc.ca
>
>
>If you're using DHCP, you'll see something more like this:
>
>DEVICE=eth0
>BOOTPROTO=DHCP
>ONBOOT=yes
>
>What you want to do is create an ifcfg-eth1 script. Basically, it would
>look like this for DHCP:
>
>DEVICE=eth1
>BOOTPROTO=DHCP
>ONBOOT=yes
>
>and I'm sure you get the picture.
>
>Note that you CAN also do this with linuxconf instead of editing/creating
>the files yourself, but I personally haven't had much luck with linuxconf on
>PPC linux.
>
>HTH,
>Bryn
>on 1/31/01 11:11 PM, Jeff Tupholme at jeff.tupholme@openmethods.com wrote:
>
>>
>> Picking up this thread from a couple of months ago...
>>
>> I have just re-installed YDL CS 1.2 on my PowerCenterPro 210, now with
>> Farallon NetLINE 10/100 PCI card (PN993-TX) installed.
>>
>> The card was not mentioned during the network stage of the installation
>> process (the background console showed that eth0 was being used), but
>> during boot-up of the working system it is shown as eth1. If if use
>> ifconfig, I see eth0 and lo but no eth1.
>>
>> I am not sure if this qualifies as a success or not! At least the card is
>> detected and recognised. I think there is something I should do to
>> configure the system to make it available (i.e., so I can see it in
>> ifconfig), because as I understand it I could then start to use it (e.g.,
>> in route configuration).
>>
>> Any advice on the right next step, and how to take it, would be much
>> appreciated.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>>
>>> Mime-Version: 1.0
>>> X-Sender: jeglinx@206.6.156.11
>>> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 10:42:35 -0500
>>> To: Jeff Tupholme <jeff.tupholme@openmethods.com>
>>> From: Stefan Jeglinski <jeglin@4pi.com>
>>> Subject: Re: eth0 dies by ping - Farallon 10/100 tha answer?
>>>
>>>> I am planning to re-install once more, after I figure out all the
>>>> application configurations (Samba the the moment!), so I'll try doing that
>>>> with my Farallon card installed and see if that works also.
>>>
>>> Please let the list know what success (or not) you have with the
>>> Farallon 10/100.
>>>
>>>
>>> Stefan Jeglinski
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