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Conference turris::digital_unix

Title:DIGITAL UNIX(FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1)
Notice:Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference
Moderator:SMURF::DENHAM
Created:Thu Mar 16 1995
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:10068
Total number of notes:35879

9572.0. "DE500-AA/DUNIXV3.2F: port: no link?" by MANM01::JOELJOSOL () Tue Apr 22 1997 06:43

    Is this a driver problem for DUNIX V3.2F? I can configure (netsetup)
    the card and can ping itself.  I can run vet and no errors are
    reported. Neither during the boot-up. There are three LEDs. Two of
    the LEDs are off - one for the 100 MB LED and the other for the
    network link. One LED is on, for active state.
    
    Can anyone explain this for the DE500-AA?
    
    /joeljosol
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9572.1About the ping...NNTPD::"[email protected]"Brian HaleyTue Apr 22 1997 11:1739
> I can configure (netsetup) the card and can ping itself.

You'll always be able to ping you're local interfaces if they're UP
because those packets are "looped back" through the loopback driver.
More interesting info would be the ping of a remote node on that
Ethernet segment (which obviously fails, hence the note).  Just a note:
bringing up the interface won't necessarily update you're routing
tables to use it, this is why scripts like netsetup always ask if you
want to restart network services (recommended).

For example, I just brought up my 100MB Ethernet here, but didn't restart
the network, it's using the old route.

--> traceroute fastcondor
traceroute to fastcondor.zk3.dec.com (16.141.160.8), 30 hops max, 40 byte
packets
 1  albacorefddi (16.141.128.1)  1 ms  1 ms  1 ms
 2  fastcondor (16.141.160.8)  2 ms  1 ms  1 ms

And after restarting the network, the new route is used.

--> traceroute fastcondor 
traceroute to fastcondor.zk3.dec.com (16.141.160.8), 30 hops max, 40 byte
packets
 1  fastcondor (16.141.160.8)  1 ms  1 ms  0 ms

If you're using the "old" routed, you might also have to flush you're routing
tables (this was fixed in a patch).  rcinet stop/route flush/rcinet start

About you're DE-500 problem, I'd start with checking the cables and
configuration,
or maybe trying another machine you know works in it's place.  Also try
searching
this conference for more info, I know there's been a lot of similar questions,
and some might have better answers.

-Brian
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9572.2alphy.lkg.dec.com::thomasThe Code WarriorTue Apr 22 1997 11:431
The DE500-AA was first supported under V3.2G so you're probably SOL for V3.2F