[464] in linux-net channel archive
Re: PLIP woes! SLIP answering phone.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Data Wire)
Tue Jun 13 02:54:46 1995
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 1995 20:20:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: Data Wire <presiden@datawire.com>
To: Ken Estes <m-ke0082@SPARKY.CS.NYU.EDU>
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <9506120353.AA18688@SPARKY.CS.NYU.EDU>
Well, It DOES look like a wrong cable... If you cannot solder one
yourself, ask a friend or take a straigh DB25-to-DB25 cable, cut it and
twist together the appropriate wires, use some electric tape afterwards,
though I have to admit it wont be the neatest solution around.
Denis Gerasimov
On Sun, 11 Jun 1995, Ken Estes wrote:
> I was wrong I have over 3 meg of ram. (what was I thinking/reading?)
> I am running linux on both boxes. (I copied some critical directories
> using sneakernet, well leaning-net, they are on the same desk) Both
> boot screens acknoledge the presence of a plip port (lpip1 on the
> pentium and plip0 on the 386) both route tables show the other
> machines full host name and both ifconfigs show the local and remote
> name. I even added route add default gw other.machine to try
> something new. Still no dice. I noticed something wierd.
> The ifconfig on the pentium looks like:
>
>
> plip0 Link encap:10Mbps Ethernet HWaddr FC:FC:80:FD:9A:20
> inet addr:128.253.154.32 P-t-P:128.253.154.33 Mask:255.255.0.0
> UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> TX packets:529 errors:547 dropped:0 overruns:0
> Interrupt:5 Base address:0x3bc
>
> The IP address is random, I got it as the example in the installation
> HOW-TO (the virtual brewry uses the same address). The other computer
> has the next address XXX.33. However the other computer has no TX
> packets only RX packets (after trying a ping) All the errors show up
> on the TX line. IS this important?
>
>
> RX packets:35 errors 0:
> TX packets:0 errors 54:
>
>
> Looks weird.
>
>
> Ken Estes
>
>
