* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-02-11 02:15]: > I have two OpenBSD machines connected with 2Mbps thru a leased-lines in > different > locations, A & B. Both machines colocated at location A and location B has a > bge0 NIC card with > 100/1000Mbps speed and each of these interfaces shall be connected to a > device between the sites. > This NIC card is detected and configured in Debian/Linux as: > > eth1 speed 10 duplex full autoneg off
> inet 192.168.111.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 NONE > What stumbled me is that I cannot ping location A from location B vice-versa. > Any classic autoneg vs hard set issue... since apparently your device is set to 10Mbit/s full-duplex, and no autoneg, you need to do the same on the openbsd box. sth like inet 1.2.3.4 255.255.255.0 NONE media 10baseT mediaopt full-duplex now of course spending half a minute with the relevant manpages (i. e. hostname.if and ifconfig) makes that crystal clear. -- Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] BS Web Services, http://bsws.de Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, Application Hosting - Hamburg & Amsterdam
