> Don't go buying new cards quite yet...
>
> Well, if you are using edx driver, you are apparently using an NE2000, or SMC8xxx
> or similar card. You have never stated what you are using or what settings
whoops. :-{)
> If you are getting DEVICE timeouts (as opposed to PING timeouts), you most likely
> have the wrong interrupt set on the NIC. GNATbox picks these combinations, you
> must adjust your cards accordingly! If you are also using this machine as a
> Windows 9x box, you may well have hardware which conflicts with the card settings
> GNATbox wants, for example, IRQ5 may be used by a sound card, so either you must
> move the sound card or not use the ed1 device (note: you can "skip" device
> numbers, my GNATbox has ed0 and ed2, and of course, you can mix types of NICs.).
> Obviously, in a dedicated firewall, there is no point for a sound card, so you
> would be best advised to strip the machine down to its bare minimum, which does
> wonderous things for freeing up IRQs and other resources. Some sound cards can
> cause real problems, taking up anywhere between one and four interrupts.
Hmm. There is a sound card, and it's true that it was a Win95 machine that
was basically laying around idle. :-{)
I can try and strip it. Unfortunately, I stole the 16MB of memory that it
had in it, and my linux box likes its new extra resources a whole lot, so I
may have to go buy some memory to get this little box going again. LOL
It was a device timeout, so I will take your advice. I just ass-u-med that
"if I could hit the network under Windoze, I could hit it with the Gnatbox"
and I guess that is fallacious.
> It doesn't take much operating to ping your own machine. The hardware really
> isn't very involved. It really doesn't tell you much.
>
> If this doesn't help, give us some concrete details, like what kind of cards,
> what their settings are, what other things are in the box, etc.
Will do, when it's running again.
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