[Sunhelp] Trouble with DSBE/S card ethernet port

[David Rouse]

on 10/19/00 10:01 AM, Dale Ghent at daleg at elemental.org wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, David Rouse wrote:
> 
> | Anyone have any suggestions on troubleshooting this?
> 
> Run prtconf and see if the new le interface shows up in the output. You
> should see the on-board le interface, le0, and then the one on the card,
> which, typically, should be le1, but dont always bet on that. If it's not
> le1, prtconf will show you what it really is, assuming the kernel
> recognizes it.

Thanks. prtconf does show two instances of an le device.

One thing I've noticed, on the hub there is never a 'receive' indication on
the port were this card is, even on a hub where there is broadcast traffic
or when I'm pinging the IPX. Would it be reasonable to try to set up an
ethernet address to IP address (using arp, right?) value on one of the other
machines on the network, or does this suggest some other kind of problem?

Also, I've seen the 'Babble error - packet longer than 1518 bytes' in
/var/ad/messages. According to the Sun docs, this indicates a kernel bug.
Would it be reasonable to try a different version of Solaris -- or start
hunting patches?


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drouse