On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, Fritz Code wrote: > 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. It's very possible the MAC address is the problem, since it is a multicast Ethernet address (the low order bit of the first octet is set). If you are defining your own MAC address, you should set the locally defined bit (second lowest order bit of the first octet), and not set the multicast bit (e.g. use "12" instead of "11" for the first octet). -Hope this helps -Bill -- 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
