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RE: configuring eth0 for use with ipx an
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ATPlack)
Wed Sep 18 22:00:34 1996
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 12:51:09 -0500
From: ATPlack <ATPlack@scj.com>
To: hazel@wolfenet.com, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
Sounds like your kernel does not have IPX enabled at compile time.
ifconfig and route will not help you since these only deal in IP.
However, tcpdump does show IPX packets at the interface. This is how I test
to see if IPX packets are available. You should see some since the Server
broadcasts it self every 60 seconds.
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From: hazel@wolfenet.com
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
Subject: configuring eth0 for use with ipx and nc
Date: Monday, September 16, 1996 7:59PM
How do I get my card set up?
I'm setting up my ne2000 card to communicate with our novell 3.12 server.
in my rc.S I have set modprobe ne io=0x300 this works fine
I type : ipx_configure --auto_interface=on --auto_primary=on returns no
visible errors
When i type slist I get no primary IPX interface found in
ncp_open That file doesn't seem to exist on my system and the IPX-howto
didn't mention it. I compiled my kernel(2.0.18) with ipx support and
inserted the module with insmod ipx.
when I check the eth0 I get(ifconfig eth0) :
eth0 Link encap:10Mbps Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:76:80:02:E1
inet addr:0.0.0.0 Bcast:0.0.0.0 Mask:0.0.0.0
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
Interrupt:10 Base address:0x300
I tried to configure it manually with :
ipx_interface add -p eth0 802.3 0xa0768002e1
the address is wrong. I'm not sure how to get the appropiate address. Is
it the address of the server? the address listed above is the address
listed for me in userlist /address.
Nothing is listed in the routing table which is probably a problem:
route returns:
Kernel routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window Use
Iface
sea-ts4.wolfene * 255.255.255.255 UH 576 0 0 ppp0
loopback * 255.0.0.0 U 3584 0 1 lo
default sea-ts4.wolfene * UG 576 0 9 ppp0
ifconfig(with no arguments):
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1
RX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
ppp0 Link encap:Point-Point Protocol
inet addr:204.157.100.101 P-t-P:204.157.100.20
Mask:255.255.255.0
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING MTU:576 Metric:1
RX packets:1958 errors:39 dropped:39 overruns:0
TX packets:1620 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
Thanks
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