Ethernet problem

[William Kucharski]

Well, I didn't get any responses, so I thought I'd try again...

We are having problems bringing up our A/UX machines on Ethernet.
We often get the following sequence of messages, which brings the
Ethernet card down:

ae0: overflow NIC reset failed
ae6_intr: receive overflow warning

Has anyone else had this problem, or did you all just pop your machines
onto Ethernet and have them work?

Details:
========
System kernel remade in the "nfs" incarnation, following the steps
outlined in the "READ THIS FIRST" A/UX Installation guide.

After bringing up the card (ifconfig ae0 up), the following commands work:

ruptime
rwho
ftp, when given a full Internet address (i.e. 192.2....)
telnet, when given a full Internet address

The card will be forced down by anything that does a gethostbyname()
call, such as

ftp (with a hostname)
telnet (with a hostname)
rlogin
ping

The card also forces itself down asynchronously from time to time.

A Sun up the line from the Mac II has no problems whatsoever, nor does
the Mac II when using EtherTalk from Mac OS.

||
||==ETHERNET=======||========SUN
||                 ||
                 MAC II

This all makes me think I've missed a configuration step somewhere,
but unless it's something hidden or a typo in the manual, I have no
clues...


Any and all help would be greatly appreciated!!




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					William Kucharski

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