on Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 09:33:06PM -0700, Bob Galloway (bob@de-fac.to) wrote:
> Howdy, deb folk!
>
> I'm trying to turn an old AT&T Globalyst P90 box into a firewall
> running Debian. Installation via NFS would be much easier if I could
> get networking to work! Too bad I can't seem to get the box to notice
> incoming packets.
>
> Symptoms:
> - running linux x86 2.0.36, with the tulip driver (bootstrapping with
> slink, since a friend still has my potato CD's)
> - install goes smoothly until the base system install step, when it
> just times out when trying to NFS mount the CD image I'm exporting
> from my desktop box.
> - the ethernet card is fine, since it works just fine if I put it in
> my desktop box
> - the cabling and hub are fine, too; I can swap cables and see the
> same results; I can ping between two other good boxes on the same LAN.
> - if I ping the problem box from outside, I can see activity on the
> LAN, but ifconfig on the problem box shows no recieved packets,
> and I get no responses to the ping.
> - if I try to NFS mount something on the problem box, ifconfig shows
> transmitted packets, but no recieved packets, and the mount attempt
> times out. I can mount the same volume on a different box.
> - looking at /proc/{pci,interrupts,ioports}, I don't see any conflicts.
> - I've made sure that I'm not doing something stupid like taking an
> IP address already in use. (I could be doing something else stupid,
> but I don't know where...)
> - I made a staticly-linked binary of ping and moved it to the problem
> box (after a couple of hours(!) of cursing at floppy disks and drives).
> It tells me that ICMP is an "unknown protocol." That'd probably
> explain the lack of ping, but not the lack of TCP.
Another thought: PCI bus problems?
Have you tried an alternate card in the box? If everthing outside the
box works, the card(s) work, and the CPU isn't misbehaving, I'd suspect
a mobo/bus problem. No idea how to diagnose same, but you've indicated
this is older hardware.
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