Linux-Hams archive - July 1999: Re: Ethernet Lockout with PPPD & Soundmodem
Re: Ethernet Lockout with PPPD & Soundmodem
Hamish Moffatt (wvyenem.iotrdzif@relay.tunkki.fi)
Sun, 4 Jul 1999 17:21:04 +1000
On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 06:23:47PM -0700, Glasscock Family wrote:
> I have been experimenting with the soundmodem on my computer, just receiving on 144.39. The Ethernet works fine to the family's Win95 box until the Linux box, mine, dials the ISP. The Ethernet stops communicating between the machines right after the ppp0 -> /dev/modem. If I wait until after the PPP link is up before starting the soundmodem it works until PPP drops the connection. Both PPP & Soundmodem are modules.
> Running ping on the Linux box show Ethernet activity on the hub but no response. I have rebooted the family computer and the Ethernet still doesn't communicate. The only way I have found so far is to reboot the Linux box to get the two computers communicating.
> Any suggestions are welcome & thanks in advanced.
> Just forgot but the I'm running Slackware 3.4 with a 2.0.36 Kernel. I have the ax25 utils 2.4.5 (?).
Vance,
It sounds like you have not assigned an IP address to the soundmodem
interface (sm0). You must assign one, even if it will never be used. You can
use anything you want; I suggest 10.0.0.1 or 192.168.255.1 or something
harmless. I found that when the soundmodem was used without an IP,
other connections would be affected (eg my ethernet).
73,
Hamish VK3SB
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