Hey Bill, actually you are right. The MAC was the problem. I have configured another MAC (00:00 ...) now and it works. Thanks, Fritz Code On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 8:00 AM, Bill Fink <billfink@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > -- 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
