On Thursday 30 March 2006 10:17, Erik Dörnbach wrote: > Hello list, > > at a site I have a debian sarge system with 3 NICs running as a firewall, > 2x 3Com905 and 1x 3Com (dunno which exactly now) onboard. All three get > recognized on bootup, share the 3c59x driver (found in the kernel I think) > and can be configured without errors. > > One of the 905s serves as a connection to a duplicate machine in another > building, some 150m down the road connected via some whacky telephone cable > using 2 twisted pairs. This connection has been used with Ethernet and 2 > lame routers just before I put up the 2 debian servers, albeit possibly > with 10baseT. > > Now I don't get a link on the NICs on both ends, let alone any network > communication. > > What I think, I must force both NICs to 10baseT somehow, but I don't > understand quite how to do that when I use 3 NICs in each machine sharing > the same driver. > > I tried playing with the media option in /etc/network/interfaces, but to no > avail, always giving out errors (not supported parameter and the like, not > in front of that machine atm) upon networking restart... > > Ah yes, don't tell me to get a correct cable, I would do that also... but > it worked before and it's not possible to dig up the whole street! :) > > > Any clues and ideas are really welcome. > > Regards, > > Erik
Have you tried the 'mii-diag' command? -- Brian J. Schrock
