Hi, im using an embedded arm9 system. I boot the system through a initrd. The initrd contains the kernel (2.4.21) and the root-filesystem. After the boot a script executes the following to bring up the network: hostname embedded-system ifconfig eth0 add 192.168.0.151 netmask 255.255.255.0 up route add -net default gw 192.168.0.1 I have problems with the network. If I use e.g. "ftp server-ip" or "telnet server-ip" I always get: "connect: Connection timed out" after approx one or two minutes. The server I try to connect to is running no firewall, I can establish a connection to the server from another client successfully. I can ping from the embedded system to the server and vice versa. ifconfig on the embedded system show no errors or drops. But Im using a strange MAC (11:11:22:22:33:33) although this shouldn't matter since I connect the embedded system and the server directly through a cross-over cable. However : "nmap -A ip-of-embedded-system" executed on the server: "Note: Host seems down. If it is really up, but blocking pur ping probes, try -P0 Nmap finished: 1 IP address (0 hosts up)" Strange, since ping works. output of ifconfig: root@embedded-system:/> ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 11:11:22:22:33:33 inet addr:192.168.0.151 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:89 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:49 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:18257 (17.8 kiB) TX bytes:0 (0.0 iB) Interrupt:3 Base address:0x300 the kernel-config: # Networking options CONFIG_PACKET=y # CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP is not set # CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV is not set # CONFIG_NETFILTER is not set CONFIG_FILTER=y CONFIG_UNIX=y CONFIG_INET=y # CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST is not set # CONFIG_IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER is not set # CONFIG_IP_PNP is not set # CONFIG_NET_IPIP is not set # CONFIG_NET_IPGRE is not set # CONFIG_ARPD is not set # CONFIG_INET_ECN is not set # CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES is not set # CONFIG_IPV6 is not set # CONFIG_KHTTPD is not set # CONFIG_ATM is not set # CONFIG_VLAN_8021Q is not set # Network device support # CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y # Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit) # CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y # CONFIG_ARM_CIRRUS is not set # CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_3COM is not set # CONFIG_LANCE is not set # CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_SMC is not set # CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_RACAL is not set # CONFIG_AT1700 is not set # CONFIG_DEPCA is not set # CONFIG_HP100 is not set # CONFIG_NET_ISA is not set CONFIG_NET_PCI=y # CONFIG_AC3200 is not set # CONFIG_APRICOT is not set CONFIG_CS89x0=y CONFIG_CS89x0_EEPROM=m # CONFIG_ZNET is not set # CONFIG_NET_POCKET is not set thanks for any help! -- Regards, --Codefritz -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html