It depends on the card you're using... some of the older combo ISA cards
(3Com 3C509, etc.)needed to be configured via their (3Com's) utilities
disk before they would operate correctly (this set the IRQ, base
address, and port.) Most newer card auto-sense...
- Herman
> -----Original Message-----
> From: alexm [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, April 05, 1999 9:32 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [SuSE Linux] ethernet BNC and TP
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> a question on ethernet :-)
>
> I friend of mine connected 4 machines with the bnc cable (properly
> terminated and stuff): linux, solaris, aix, and, of course, win95.
> (Note: I told him that BNC is slow and that TP is much better ;-) )
> The problem is that solaris, aix, and win95 can ping to each other,
> while
> linux can only ping to itself.
> I could not find anything wrong with his setup.
>
> SUN-----------linux---------win95---------AIX --> all on the same
> cable
>
> linux machine is in the middle.
> the card is porperly recognized and is UP.
> IP address and netmask look OK.
> Now here is the question:
> Do you have to specify what connection you are using on an ethernet
> card:
> BNC or TP?
> If yes, then how?
> Also, why do you think this setup does not work?
>
> Thank you for your time and effort :-)
>
> -alexm
>
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