Subject: Re: elink3 bites (was Re: new i386 snapshot (finally))
To: None <Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no>
From: Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@quick.com.au>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/08/1997 22:58:04
> > After ifconfig'ing ep0 and attempting to ping my server I get a
> > response to the first packet, then I get:
> >
> > ping: failed to clear cached route: Network is unreachable
> >
> > If I ping again, I get the 1st response then the above error again.

> A GENERIC kernel and an SSTO boot floppy image is now available in

Thanks, I tried the boot disk...
ep0 ifconfig's ok but ping fails. 

For what its worth the commands I just typed after the "install"
function finnished were:

# ifconfig ep0 203.12.250.7 netmask 255.255.255.192 media aui
# ping 203.12.250.1
PING 203.12.250.1 (203.12.250.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 203.12.250.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=2.657 ms
ping: failed to clear cached route: Network is unreachable

ifconfig -a shows ep0 with all the correct values.

Also I can ping 203.12.250.7 ok from .1:

sjg:21$ ping 203.12.250.7 
PING 203.12.250.7 (203.12.250.7): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 203.12.250.7: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=1.818 ms
64 bytes from 203.12.250.7: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=2.409 ms
64 bytes from 203.12.250.7: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=2.385 ms
64 bytes from 203.12.250.7: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=2.393 ms
^C
----203.12.250.7 PING Statistics----
4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 1.818/2.251/2.409 ms

So I assume that the net, tranceiver and nic are all working.

And a final data pt.  I tried installing 1.2.1 last night,
and despite what the man pages say, no combination of link0 -link1
etc would get ep0 to use the AUI port, and it definitely was not
working from either side of the net.

BUT!!!  Hoping to get another look at that panic, I just did the mount
again and it worked.  I'm Extracting happily now.  Thanks!

--sjg