Re: Network Oddities

2022-05-07 Thread Rhialto
On Sat 07 May 2022 at 13:50:42 -0400, Ron Georgia wrote: > This sounds fun, I love testing and troubleshooting, but (no laughing) I > don't even know what the debug sets are or how to use them. I can look it > up, and if you have some helpful docs, point me at them and I'll read those > too. In

Re: Network Oddities

2022-05-07 Thread Ron Georgia
interface configuration - rc.conf dhcpcd=YES dhcpcd_flags="-qM" - ifconfig.wm1 and ifconfig.wm0 up media autoselect I did have a core dump in the root directoy -rw--- 1 root wheel 493K May 3 12:56 dhcpcd.core Scenarios 1. With both network cables connected but only one

Re: Network Oddities

2022-05-07 Thread Martin Husemann
On Fri, May 06, 2022 at 07:18:04PM -0400, Ron Georgia wrote: > "what's in ifconfig.wm0" > cat /etc/ifconfig.wm1 > up > media autoselect > > I simply copied ifconfig.wm1. And, yes, they were connected to the same > network. While this may not make much sense in general, it is not clear to me why

Re: Network Oddities

2022-05-06 Thread Ron Georgia
"what's in ifconfig.wm0" cat /etc/ifconfig.wm1 up media autoselect I simply copied ifconfig.wm1. And, yes, they were connected to the same network. Why? Total ignorance. I'm learning. I'd like to thank you and Andy for responding. Believe it or not it does help. On 5/5/22 2:37 PM, Rhialto

Re: Network Oddities

2022-05-06 Thread Ron Georgia
1. Reading through the ifconfig.if man page I found this, "For each interface (nnX) that is to be configured, there should be either an ifconfig_nnX variable in rc.conf(5), or an /etc/ifconfig.nnX file" Also in "Setting up TCP/IP on NetBSD in practice" document, I assumed the following meant

Re: Network Oddities

2022-05-06 Thread Andy Ruhl
On Fri, May 6, 2022 at 4:12 PM Ron Georgia wrote: > > 1. Reading through the ifconfig.if man page I found this, > "For each interface (nnX) that is to be configured, there should be > either an ifconfig_nnX variable in rc.conf(5), or an /etc/ifconfig.nnX file" > Also in "Setting up TCP/IP on

Re: Network Oddities

2022-05-05 Thread Rhialto
On Tue 03 May 2022 at 13:27:27 -0400, Ron Georgia wrote: > With ethernet cables plugged into both wm0 and wm1. Everything works; > however the only ifconfig file is ifconfig.wm1. Everything works. Reading > through the docs, the recommendation is to have an ifconfig.if for each > interface. The

Re: Network Oddities

2022-05-03 Thread Andy Ruhl
On Tue, May 3, 2022 at 10:27 AM Ron Georgia wrote: > > I am having some odd behavior from my NICs or maybe from the network or > dhcpcd, not sure. > > With ethernet cables plugged into both wm0 and wm1. Everything works; > however the only ifconfig file is ifconfig.wm1. Everything works. >

Network Oddities

2022-05-03 Thread Ron Georgia
I am having some odd behavior from my NICs or maybe from the network or dhcpcd, not sure. With ethernet cables plugged into both wm0 and wm1. Everything works; however the only ifconfig file is ifconfig.wm1. Everything works. Reading through the docs, the recommendation is to have an