On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 08:25:58AM -0700, Gary Thomas wrote:

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> >>> If yes, can you up the interfaces, and send some packets over them
> >>> and see if the TX counters on eth0 increase?  If yes, can you dump
> >>> the packets sent out over eth0 using tcpdump?
> >> I tried to ping out and into the box.  Nothing seems to go anywhere:
> >>
> >> root@ppc_target:~ ifconfig
> >> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1D:11:81:00:00
> >>           inet addr:192.168.12.189  Bcast:192.168.12.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
> >>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> >>           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> >>           TX packets:17 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> >>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> >>           RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:1810 (1.7 KiB)
> >>           Base address:0x6000
> >>
> >> lan1.1    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1D:11:81:00:00
> >>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> >>           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> >>           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> >>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> >>           RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
> >>
> >> Running tcpdump on the external network (192.168.12.x), I saw
> >> no activity.
> >>
> >> Do I need to do anything more than "ifconfig lan1.1 up"?
> > 
> > IP addresses should be attached to the lanX.X interfaces, not to eth0
> > -- eth0 will only be carrying specially tagged (DSA/EDSA) packets.
> > So you should move the IP address to lan1.1.
> > 
> > Can you trying pinging via lan1.1 and then seeing if there are
> > packets transmitted out over eth0, and dump those packets with tcpdump?
> 
> It looks like the packets are going out, but I don't see anything
> on the wire.  After a few ping attempts:
> 
> root@ppc_target:~ ifconfig
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1D:11:81:00:00
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:41 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:2974 (2.9 KiB)
>           Base address:0x6000
> 
> lan1.1    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1D:11:81:00:00
>           inet addr:192.168.12.189  Bcast:192.168.12.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:39 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>           RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:1638 (1.5 KiB)
> 
> The eth0 and lan1.1 counters are going up at more or less the
> same rate.

Can you run tcpdump on eth0 to see what the packets look like?
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