>Number:         4930
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       de0 doesn't pass packets on 100bTX after being ifconfig'ed by sysinst
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    kern-bug-people (Kernel Bug People)
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Feb  1 14:50:02 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Laine Stump
>Organization:
	Ascend Communications
>Release:        1.3 release
>Environment:
System: NetBSD eng-temp.morningstar.com 1.3 NetBSD 1.3 (GENERIC) #0: Tue Dec 30 18:26:29 EST 1997 perry@jekyll.piermont.com:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC i386

>Description:

Installing using 1.3-release boot floppy on a P5-100 with a NetGear
FA310TX (21140-AE based) ethernet connected to 100bTX. When I gave
sysinst the info about the network (not knowing what string to enter
for "media", I left it as "default"), it paused for a very long time,
then said that it had failed to initialize the network. When I looked
at ifconfig, it gave something like this:

de0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,OACTIVE,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        media: autoselect (100baseTX) status: active
        inet 137.175.81.252 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 137.175.81.255

and sure enough, ping didn't work. So I ifconfiged the card by hand:

  # ifconfig de0 137.175.81.252 netmask 0xffffff00

and ping worked just fine. Looking at the ifconfig again, I saw:

de0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        media: autoselect (100baseTX) status: active
        inet 137.175.81.252 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 137.175.81.255

The only difference is that OACTIVE is off.

>How-To-Repeat:
	See above.
>Fix:
	unknown.
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: