Re: Bpqether Problem

From: Cees Tool (obaj.gfyjfaad@tl.lv)
Date: Sat Mar 31 2001 - 03:06:21 EEST

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    Hi Colin,

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "g3orh" <zpiiayl.smmqmxd@catapult.net>
    To: "Linux Hams" <gcqylwpa@pepsi.com>

    > The problem is that bpqether does NOT receive anything from the dos bpq
    > system even though it is sent. Therefore I cannot make a connection from

    A DOS-BPQ-node normally sent its frames to a 'multicast' address. Linux
    BPQ-ethernet frames are sent to the broadcast-adress. Your BPQ-node will
    receive the broadcast frames, but the Linux system will NOT receive
    multicast frames if you did not enable multicast on your ethernet interface.
    Probably that's why the Linux computer does not receive any of the DOS-BPQ
    frames.

    You can enable multicast receiving by adding 'allmulti' in the IFCONFIG
    line of your ethernet card e.g. :
    ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1 broadcast 192.168.0.255 netmask 255.255.255.0
    allmulti up

    You could also reconfigure the DOS-BPQ node to sent its frame to the
    broadcast adress instead of the default multicast adress. This is described
    in the BPQ documentation, but I think changing the linux-ifconfig is more
    easy.

    Regards
    Cees - PA3AES

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