Messages in this thread |  | | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: strange networking problems in 2.0 | Date | Wed, 12 Jun 1996 09:46:27 +0100 (BST) |
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> The machine is an ACER pentium 120, 16 megs ram, 1.2 gig ide drive, > idecd, and tulip-based ethernet board (using tulip driver). > (the net-board is actually an asante Asante-nic PCI board).
OK I've no idea if that is 100% compatible.
> Here's what happens: > boot up Linux machine > try to telnet in from SGI: no response from linux machine > telnet from linux machine to SGI: works fine > telnet from SGI to linux machine: works fine
Sounds like media detection. You may need to tell the Tulip card what media type to default too. The other approach (and one I use to kick a machine with a dodgy NE1K clone into action at boot is to send a single ping packet somewhere during boot).
Alan
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