On Fri, 26 Jan 1996, Brad Salai wrote:

> That makes sense. Just one more question. When I do ifconfig on the card
> and everything seems to work, and netstat -ain or something seems to
> indicate that ae0 has the address I configured it to have, does that mean
> the card is working, or just that netbsd is configured properly, and the
> card might still not be working at all?
> Thanks

This answer is a guess, so someone jump in here to correct if I'm wrong.

I would think that if you can actually ifconfig the interface then the kernel
is programming the card with the proper IP address. However, that only means
that _part_ of the kernel support for that card is working. Just because 
the kernel can tell the card what it's IP address is does NOT mean that
the kernel can send and receive packets from the card properly. Based on
Allen's recent message regarding interrupt problems with ethernet cards I 
would guess that this is what is really happening, i.e. part of the kernel
support for that ethernet card is working (partial programming of ethernet/IP
parameters), but not all (sending/receiving packets).

	--John

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