>On Thu, 25 Jan 1996, Brad Salai wrote:
>
>> If so, shouldn't I be able to hang the machine by sending something to the
>> card from the ethernet? This doesn't happen, but the other machine on the
>> network can never connect, even though I have ifconfig'd the card, and
>> netstat shows that things look ok.
>
>Brad,
>Not necessarily. If the ethernet board on your machine is not supported than
>it probably was not configured correctly by the kernel at boot time. If it
>wasn't properly configured, then it probably doesn't really know what
>it's address is. And without it's address, the ethernet board will
>ignore incoming packets that other machines sent to it's (currently unassigned)
>IP address. (Except for perhaps broadcast packets, but if the board is
>not completely set up it may ignore everything coming in.)
>
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

Brad

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