A5000 - diving in at the deep end!

[rubber_jonnie]

What's your routing table like? If no route then no ping.

It shouldn't really need a routing table to ping something on the same subnet, like another PC or the gateway, which is in the settings, but I can't even ping anything local. That's not 100% true, I can ping the localhost address and the local IP address.

Well, unless the A5000 TCP/IP stack is weird and I'm missing something. Or it doesn't like my 10/100 switch.

[HigashiJun]

Ok, slow but good progress !

[stephen_usher]

What's your routing table like? If no route then no ping.

It shouldn't really need a routing table to ping something on the same subnet, like another PC or the gateway, which is in the settings, but I can't even ping anything local. That's not 100% true, I can ping the localhost address and the local IP address.

Well, unless the A5000 TCP/IP stack is weird and I'm missing something. Or it doesn't like my 10/100 switch.

Even the local physical interface needs a route to the subnet it's connected to, e.g.

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% netstat -r
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window  irtt Iface
default         router          0.0.0.0         UG        0 0          0 eth0
163.1.22.0      0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U         0 0          0 eth0
link-local      0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U         0 0          0 eth0

In this case the "local" network is 163.1.22.0. There's also a default route out to the router.

[rubber_jonnie]

It shouldn't really need a routing table to ping something on the same subnet, like another PC or the gateway, which is in the settings, but I can't even ping anything local. That's not 100% true, I can ping the localhost address and the local IP address.

Well, unless the A5000 TCP/IP stack is weird and I'm missing something. Or it doesn't like my 10/100 switch.

Even the local physical interface needs a route to the subnet it's connected to, e.g.

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% netstat -r
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window  irtt Iface
default         router          0.0.0.0         UG        0 0          0 eth0
163.1.22.0      0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U         0 0          0 eth0
link-local      0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U         0 0          0 eth0

In this case the "local" network is 163.1.22.0. There's also a default route out to the router.

I'll check it out, I'm used to every OS I've ever used building a routing table so that may be catching me out

[stephen_usher]

Yeah, usually the route is added automatically.

[rubber_jonnie]

Ok, so managed to get this:

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Supposedly fully working for £16, so with the cabling coming from Cricklewood electronics for about the same, I should be able to set up a test BNC network and hopefully, plus since it has AUI, I can hopefully test all the elements of the A5000 NIC to see if they are all working.

Fun and games this A5000 when it comes to networking.

[stephen_usher]

[HigashiJun]

Fingers crossed !

[rubber_jonnie]

Also heard back from CJE, who have been very helpful, and I'm going to try a blank system with uniboot and drivers supplied by them, see if I get any further.

Will be dead easy to set up now I have BlueSCSI installed, I can just drop in a spare SD card and blank image, so it'll make things clean and easy.

Fingers crossed I'll have this sorted soon.

[rubber_jonnie]

So I tried running the e1info command as suggested by CJE and I can see when executing multiple times that the RX & TX frame counters are incrementing, as is the unwanted frames counter.

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So I'm positive something is working and it's just a matter of time