[tulip] Still no go with multiple Linksys cards

Donald Becker becker@scyld.com
Wed, 1 Aug 2001 01:21:47 -0400 (EDT)


On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Michael Olson wrote:

> Despite some advice and mostly my own tinkering around, I have failed to
> get my two Linksys EtherFast 10/100 LAN Cards (LNE100TX V4) working under
> Linux.

They appear to be working fine.
Your problem seems to be with routing.

> Debian Unstable, Kernel Version 2.2.19
> Tulip driver v0.92
> 
> [ifconfig]
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:04:5A:4C:D4:1A  
>           inet addr:192.168.10.13  Bcast:192.168.10.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:309 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:49 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 
>           RX bytes:18955 (18.5 Kb)  TX bytes:7749 (7.5 Kb)
>           Interrupt:5 Base address:0x1000 
> 
> eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:03:6D:1E:A5:11  
>           inet addr:192.168.1.2  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:102 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:49 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 
>           RX bytes:10178 (9.9 Kb)  TX bytes:7749 (7.5 Kb)
>           Interrupt:11 Base address:0x3000 

This looks normal.  You are both sending and receiving packets.  No
errors have been reported.

> [route -n]
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
> 208.20.85.250   0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0 ppp0
> 192.168.1.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth1
> 192.168.10.0    0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
> 0.0.0.0         208.20.85.250   0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 ppp0

Your default route is through the ppp0 link.

> [log of attempt to transmit packets to one computer on each network and
> their affects on /proc/net/dev]

Note that 'ping' must resolve the address using ARP before sending its
packets.  Thus the "packets sent" report from 'ping' is not meaningful
when there is no ARP response.

This *really does* look like a routing problem.  Make certain that you
understand which cable is plugged into which network card.

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