local net problems
I have installed debian hamm (on an EIDE Pentium about a week ago).
Kernel 2.0.29 (since configured, compiled, and installed a 2.0.30
kernel).
There are two weird problems that I am experiencing...
The first problem is that the ethernet module is not loading.
But typing "insmod /lib/modules/2.0.30/net/3c509.o" loads
the module without error.
An "ifconfig eth0 199.79.129.32 up" works without error.
"route add -net 199.79.129.0" correctly sets up the
route.
After the above, ping, telnet, and rlogin all work
on the local network.
I recompiled the kernel yesterday. The 3c509
module still did not load (I also added the
"options addr=0x300 irq=10" line that exists
in the conf.modules file for the stable
release machine -- still no help).
I noticed that there is mention that kerneld might
not work if /usr is not mounted and that if this is
the case that a work around is to copy a librry to
/lib (which I did and created the link). I really
did not expect this "fix" to work as all other modules
seem to load ok.
The kernel routing table just after booting:
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.0.2 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 1 0 0 sl0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 3 lo
0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 U 1 0 0 sl0
The ifconfig output just after booting:
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1
RX packets:154 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
TX packets:154 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
sl0 Link encap:Serial Line IP
inet addr:192.168.0.1 P-t-P:192.168.0.2 Mask:0.0.0.0
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
Cat /proc/modules just after booting:
serial 8 0
dummy 1 0
ppp 5 0
slip 2 1
slhc 2 [ppp slip] 1
psaux 1 1
lp 2 0
ipx 3 0
ftape 43 0
rarp 1 0
hpfs 3 0
nfs 12 4
binfmt_java 1 0
The other problem is trying to figure out where route is
getting the first entry:
Destination ...
192.168.0.2 0.0.0.0
I have looked all over to try to find out where route
is getting this IP address.
Also, I looked about everywhere that I could think of yesterday
and last night for some sort of net configuration utility(ies) in
Debian. I am quite used to editing the files by hand as the SVR5
machines that I have administered had a pretty unreliable set of
admin scripts but I don't want to do that with debian if there are
tools available.
best,
-bill
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