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On Thursday 11 Sep 2003 12:13 am, Simon Waters wrote: > Neil Williams wrote: > > My nice new Debian box has three NIC's, one fixed IP and two DHCP. I > have two > > PCI cards and one ISA. > > I'm confused why a nice new Debian box would have a 2.2 kernel?! Installed from boot disks from a LXF DVD Debian 3.0 stable. I haven't gone for anything fancy on the box, although I might look into a 2.4 kernel for the laptop. This is the Pentium1 that I've been hacking around for the last 8 years or so (I bought it when Win95 was just 3months old, awww), I don't know that a 2.4 kernel would give me much performance improvement. > I'm concerned your hardware doesn't just work. It does, but only with lots of unnecessary Cat5! > Does the switch have upgradable firmware? No. I don't THINK it's the switch, but I will check - I had the same light results with the router. > I would assume the different eth numbers must be a BIOS thing as > suggested. Maybe just disable plug and pray in BIOS. I would expect the Oh I had great fun with P&P. I had disabled it so completely in the BIOS when I installed Mandrake 7.2 (with only one NIC) that it disabled the entire PCI bus. Which was nice. It took me a fair while to work that one out. It certainly appears that all the problems are in the BIOS. > MAC addresses to always be consistent with the physical card, so if all > else fails you can script around it, although you seemed to doubt this > for some reason?! No, just figured that it'd be more reliable to get the hardware sorted. > As regards dynamic interfaces not getting addresses, you'll have to > packet trace the DHCP negotiation to find out what is wrong. Whenever > I've been forced to do it, I've always found bugs in the Microsoft DHCP > server implementation :-(, but hopefuly they are better these days. No Microsoft on this LAN. Mandrake 9.1 (not using DHCP), Mandrake 9.0 (not using DHCP but offering a server if necessary), there's a DHCP server in the router - I don't like to think where they got that code from. > Simon -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.codehelp.co.uk http://www.dclug.org.uk http://www.biglumber.com/x/web?qs=0x8801094A28BCB3E3
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