Thank you to everyone who responded to my request for help. It appears that
I was the victim of my own stupidity. I inadvertantly grabbed an old 100MB
hub to use (not a 10/100MB hub). Needless to say, the 3c509 cards did not
work. I have replaced the hub and everything is fine now.
On another note, I have determined that there is a small but vital piece of
information missing from the linux Ethernet HOWTO. That is, if you attempt
to specify any parameters on the 3c509 driver line(s) in the /etc/modules
file, the driver will NOT load. Once the cards are appropriately set with
the DOS utility, the simple 3c509 entry works like a charm.
Thanks again,
Dave
- Original Message -
From: Dave Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 8:06 PM
Subject: [leaf-user] trouble accessing firewall
I am standing up a bering firewall and have made it through the 3c509
troubleshooting phase, or so I thought. I am unable to ping the internal
side of the firewall from my other computers.
My hardware
-
486DX4 100Mhz
PCI video card
20MB RAM
Floppy disk
3c509B-TP (I have two of these cards installed in the ISA bus)
Hardware configuration
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NO Hard drive (controller disabled in BIOS)
NO comm/parallel ports (disabled in BIOS)
Set the 3c509-TP cards to IRQ7,5 and IO addresses of 0x300,0x280 and
disabled the ISA plug and play feature and successfully ran the 3COM
diagnostics function on each card)
Software configuration
1.) downloaded the bering 1.2 software (Windows utility to make the boot
floppy- Bering_1.2_img_bering-1680.exe from
http://download.sourceforge.net/leaf/)
2) downloaded the bering 1.2 modules (Bering_1.2_modules_2.4.20.tar.gz
from
http://download.sourceforge.net/leaf/)
3) I booted the floppy I made in the first step and added the 3c509.o
ethernet card driver to /lib/modules
4.) I modified /etc/modules to add the line
3c509
5) I pretty much left /etc/network/interfaces to the default settings
since
they are set up initially for the configuration that I am looking for
The problem
Although the system recognizes both cards (IRQs and IO addresses) at
startup, the eth1 interface fails to activate, light up the led on the hub
and can not be pinged from my other workstation on the internal lan. Any
ideas how to proceed would be much appreciated.
Thanks
Dave
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