Subject: Re: Networking...
To: Allen Briggs <briggs@puma.macbsd.com>
From: Christian Taylor <ctaylor@fox.nstn.ca>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 08/26/1997 07:59:15
At 10:46 AM -0300 8/25/97, Allen Briggs wrote:
>> > When I boot up, and it starts networking, it will freeze shortly
>> > afterwards.  I removed the hostname.ae0 file and tried to enable ae0
>> > manually using ifconfig.  This seemed to work, until I tired to ping my
>> > 6100.  It immediately froze.  It seems that whenever I try to send
>>anything
>> > over the network, the system freezes.
>
>This sounds like a problem with having a video card where we don't know
>how to disable or clear the video blank interrupt (or some other nubus
>card that is generating interrupts that we can't clear).
>
>> My video card is a RasterOps ClearVue/GS, according to dmesg.
>
>This, for example, is one that we don't know anything about...  ;-)

The video card that's in my IIcx that was having the same problem is a
simple Apple 8*24 card.  I thought that was a pretty standard card?  Any
suggestions on that?

>> I config'ed ae0, and *bam*, it locked up when I tried to ping another host.
>> IP: 10.1.1.5, netmask: 255.0.0.0, broadcast: 10.1.1.255.
>
>Umm...  I've never used addresses in that range, but it looks to me like
>the broadcast and netmask parameters don't match.  I'd expect
>
>	IP: 10.1.1.5, netmask: 255.0.0.0, broadcast: 10.255.255.255
>
>for a class A network or
>
>	IP: 10.1.1.5, netmask: 255.255.255.0, broadcast: 10.1.1.255
>
>for a network with the broadcast address you specified.  If I understand
>the syntax right (probably not ;-), those two networks would be described
>as 10/8 or 10.1.1/24, respectively.

I think my config was ok.  IP of 17.1.1.2, netmask of 255.255.255.0 and
broadcast of 17.1.1.255.  Even if it was, that shouldn't cause the machine
to lock, should it?

 -=Christian=-

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