lan debugging question

[DJA]

To be annoying rather than redundant, I'll comment that it still looks
like your routing tables are wrong.


Serge Rey wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 10:28:56AM -0800, Serge Rey wrote:
> > i'm setting up a firewall box for a cable connection:
> >
> > two nics on this box:
> >
> > eth0 links to the cable via dhcpcd. this part works.
> >
> > eth1 goes to a hub and the local lan.
> 
> more info.
> eth0: 3com 3c905
> eth1: Netgear FA310TX
> 
> the relevant parts of dmesg:
> 
> 3c59x.c 18Feb01 Donald Becker and others http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
> eth0: 3Com 3c905 Boomerang 100baseTx at 0xff00,  00:60:97:df:90:1a, IRQ 9
>   8K word-wide RAM 3:5 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/MII interface.
>   MII transceiver found at address 24, status 786d.
>   Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
> tulip.c:v0.91g-ppc 7/16/99 becker at cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
> eth1: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 32 at 0xfc00, 00:A0:CC:D2:61:B2, IRQ 10.
> eth0: Initial media type MII.
> eth0: MII #24 status 786d, link partner capability 0021, setting half-duplex.
> eth0: Initial media type MII.
> eth0: MII #24 status 786d, link partner capability 0021, setting half-duplex.
> 
> i'm wondering about a couple of things. first, i only get that single
> message regarding eth1, but a google search shows me that there is often
> a second message along the lines of:
> 
> eth0:  MII transceiver #1 config 3000 status 7809 advertising 01e1.
> 
> (this is in fact taken from another box on the lan with the same model
> card)
> 
> so if anyone can enlighten me about what the MII stands for, or if this
> missing message is the source of my problem, i'd appreciate it.
> 
> the second thing i'm wondering is why i get duplicate messages on eth0?
> 
> thanks,
> serge
> --
> Sergio J. Rey   http://typhoon.sdsu.edu/rey.html
> Prediction is difficult especially with regard to the future.
>          - Chinese proverb
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      ~DJA.