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Re: Token-Ring? Anyone?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (hessel@xs4all.nl)
Thu Apr 4 20:09:08 1996
To: submit-linux-dev-net@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
From: hessel@xs4all.nl
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 1996 21:54:53 GMT
tallen <tallen@csc.sctboces.org> wrote:
>We're pretty new to LINUX, and are trying to set up a firewall between
>our RS6000 and the internet. The RS6000 has both ethernet (the internet
>side) and token ring (our entire network is token ring). After never
>getting the 2 cards in the AIX box to see each other without logging in
>(no Netscape), and the fact that you can't get a better firewall than
>that, we decided to give LINUX a try. We put up kernel 1.3.18, and
>compiled it with token ring, ip forwarding on and no firewall (for now),
>also the SMC Ultra driver is included. Our LINUX machine, of course, has
>a token ring card (IBM older 8 bit 16/4) and the SMC Ultra. The ifconfigs
>and routes for the two boards as follows:
>ifconfig eth0 205.232.52.24 broadcast 205.232.52.63 netmask 255.255.255.192
>ifconfig tr0 205.232.52.193 broadcast 205.232.52.255 netmask 255.255.255.192
>route add -net 205.232.52.0 netmask 255.255.255.192
>route add -net 205.232.52.192 netmask 255.255.255.192
>route add default gw 205.232.52.1 # this is our router to the internet
>Now the problem. I haven't even been able to start setting up socks yet,
>because I can't get my token ring to behave reliably. I can ping from
>the token ring to other token ring devices fine. If I ping the token
>ring from another device, I lose over half the packets. If I try to telnet
>through the token ring, the system hangs with:
>kernel panic: skput:over: 00a98214:4
I had the same problem on 1.3.15 until I installed a newer release,
try 1.3.3x. I use a 8 bit 16/4 adapter myself and I have no problems.
Good luck,
Hessel.
>Is there something I'm doing wrong? Have I set up the routes correctly
>for my subnet? Do I need to subnet to separate the networks? Thanks for
>your patience and help,
>Tom
