Steve Shah wrote:
>
> 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?
Yes..I tried with two other cards on the same m/c, no luck...I see no
lisht on the other side of the cable (at the hub), I cannot understand
why this is happening...teh os seems to load the driver correctly for
all the cards...of course ping does not work..
>
> > 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
ok got it....
Thx,
Arni
>
> -Steve
> (Who speaks for himself, not his employer)
>
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