Oliver Mahmoudi wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I am trying to set up a crossover cable network between two computers > running FreeBSD 7.0. > The network cards are configured and they work, i.e. I pinged myself and it > works. > > However, when booting up the systems I always get the error message that the > link status > of my network cards has changed to down. > > Running `ifconfig` tells me that no carrier has been detected even though > the cable ends are > plugged in.
What type of cards are they? I've noticed in the past that sometimes I had to manually force the cards to 'UP' prior to assigning any addresses to them: ifconfig_em6="up" ifconfig_em6="inet6 2607:f118:1:2::/64 eui64" Try the "up" statement, and see if it helps after the next reboot. Steve
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