Subject: ethernet problems on PM 8550
john.newsom@bsd405.com
Date: Sat Sep 09 2000 - 07:19:49 MDT
I am having a strange experience with eth0 on a Powermac 8550 workgroup server,
YDL CS 1.2.
I get very inconsistent results when I use ifup eth0 to bring up my ethernet
port. On bootup, it takes a long time to bring up the ethernet service, and
when I finally get to the command line, and try to ping the network, no luck, so
I have to manually do the ifconfig, ifup, ifdown thing.
For instance, ifconfig will confirm that the eth0 is up and broadcasting, but I
get no success when I ping a nearby server. So I give the ifup eth0 command,
the machine thinks for a while, I get my command prompt back, now I can ping,
but only using IP addresses. Do another ifup eth0, and sometimes I get name
resolution, sometimes nothing!
Could this just be a flaky ethernet card? On the back of the 8550 are both an
rj45 jack, and an older trapedzoidal connection that requires a separate
transciever.
I am using DHCP, which works great on my PB G3 'lombard', and the various config
files are identical.
John Newsom
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