On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 12:18:57PM -0400, Arni Raghu wrote:
> But here is the funny thing..I connect it directly to my hub...but the
> light on the other side of the bub does not show up..I know the hib
> works..I have so many other machines connected that work fine and the
> cable is ok too I double checked...I ran 3com diagnostics to see if
> anything was wrong..could not find any..(I tried with both boot rom
> enable and disabled..no luck..)
Does the NIC work in other boxes? Other ports?
> The other problem I noticed was that when I add the default gw it gets
> added fine but when I run route to see it..the command just hangs
> indefinitly...
That's because it's trying to resolve the hostname from the IP
address. If there is anything that is preventing the reverse lookup
to fail, it will hang there waiting for a timeout. You can skip the
reverse lookups with the -n option on route
-Steve
(Who speaks for himself, not his employer)
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