Chris Pitchford <cpitchford@intrepid.co.uk>

On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Toru Nishimura wrote:

> 	[ ... NetBSD/pmax can not talk with le0 ... ]
> >>> # ping 10.1.3.1
> >>> PING TO 10.1.3.1 (10.1.3.1): 56 data bytes
> >>> le0: device timeout
> >> 
> >> It's very interesting.  Although this might sound a dumbest question,
> >> is the network connection 100% ok?
> >
> > The network definately works ok. I can boot (or at least load and crash)
> > any of the ecoff kernels and I can boot DECStation Linux using TFTP and
> > NFS root and telnet into the box and play around.. 
> 
> 'Key, I assume you are using 'MAU unit' to adapt DECstation AUI port
> to 10baseT or 10base2.  If you are familar with tcpdump(8) or similar
> network traffic analysing tool, is it possible for you whether to
> verify any outgoing ethernet frames after NetBSD/pmax boots itself and
> the 'le0' network interface is initialized?
> 
> BTW, you can run full-scale (not-short-and-quick) self diagnostic test
> with 'test' command for '>>' PROM prompt.

I do use a 10BaseT UTP network and have a transceiver to convert the
interface. I tried running TCPDUMP when I booted the nfsnetbsd kernel to
see what it was asking for when it wouldn't mount root from my server and
again when trying to ping out of the box. It reported no traffic. Neither
did the hub (none of the lights flashed as is the case when a ping usually
happens :) )


Just incase it was a link-detection problem I removed the tranceiver from
the box whilst it was booting (ie so it started with the netowrk link
down) and replaced it once I was at the shell promt. This didn't work
unfortunately..

I'm starting to think this box is slightly odd!

Cheers everyone

Chris

> 
> Tohru Nishimura
> Nara Institute of Science and Technology
>