Hi,
thanks to everyone who sent me suggestions on solving my problem. It
turned out that it was misconfigured switch that was causing the
problem.
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to get a DEGPA card to work in a AS8400 running Tru64 ver
> 5.0A with patchkit 2 installed
> The card has been installed in the machine and is recognised during
> bootup.
>
> My problems come when I try to connect to the network.
>
> I have the following settings in rc.config
> NUM_NETCONFIG="1"
> NETDEV_1="alt0"
> IFCONFIG_1="xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask 255.255.0.0"
>
> ( I am on a class B network)
>
> All other cards have been deconfigured
>
Thanks to Shari Hovey for pointing out I chould have put
/etc/init.local instead of /etc/rc.local here.
> I have turned of the autonegotiate using an entry in /etc/rc.local
> /usr/sbin/lan_config -i alt0 -a 0
>
>
> There has also been some tuning of network parameters in sysconfigtab,
> namely inet: tcp_recvspace, tcp_sendspace, udp_sendspace udp_recvspace
>
> and
>
> socket: sb_max
>
> But as they work ok with our 100BaseT cards I dont think they are the
> problem.
>
>
> Having done all this and rebooting the machine I cant see the netowrk
> at all. All the led indicators on the card are out. I can ping
> 127.0.0.1 ok and a ping to the IP of that card itself is succesful. I
> have also swapped the fibre connecter leads over to see if they were
> in the wrong sockets.
>
>
> My question have I missed any configuration details to get the DEGPA
> to work on the network?
>
> Also I do not have any way of accessing the network equipment so I can
> check that. I am told by the netowrking people here that I am
> connected to a 3Com fiber switch ( model unknown). Does anyone know
> of any parameters that need to be set on switches to get a DEGPA
> talking to them.
>
Thanks as ever
--
Gwen Pettigrew
Computer Officer
Department of Earth Sciences
Cardiff University
http://www.ocean.cf.ac.uk/people/gwen
gwen_at_ocean.cf.ac.uk
Received on Tue Mar 06 2001 - 14:46:21 NZDT