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Re: Token-Ring? Anyone?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Yann DOUSSOT)
Fri Apr 5 02:13:44 1996
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 16:36:44 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Yann DOUSSOT <doussot@angel.via.ecp.fr>
Reply-To: doussot@via.ecp.fr
To: tallen <tallen@csc.sctboces.org>
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.A32.3.90.960403075446.14775A-100000@csc.sctboces.org>
On Wed, 3 Apr 1996, tallen 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:
>
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>
> kernel panic: skput:over: 00a98214:4
>
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Kernel is certainly the source of your problems. Token Ring Support is
borken from 1.3.6 to 1.3.42 if I remember correctly. Upgrade to a newer
version. 1.3.57 is stable but you may want to choose a newer version.
Hope this helps.
Yann Doussot <doussot@via.ecp.fr>
