[openbeosnetteam] Re: Eureka!!! (was [MAKE BUG] Make installetc still crashes)

> That did it Bruno, you're a genius!  I kept looking at that line in the
> Makefile and I couldn't imagine why it was dying.  I wasn't looking at the
> whole path.
>
> See success below.  Several interesting things.

Excellent! Feedback - we likee!
>
> First, I can ping local machines, but not myself (insert "didn't your
> parents tell you about pinging yourself" jokes here).  Once I add a
> gateway, I can ping remote machines.

OK.

> Second, at one point, "route show" worked and then it just stopped
working.
>  I would get the headers that it prints, but no data and it would just sit
> there until I killed it.  It didn't have an affect on anything else, so
> that's good.

It'll be hanging on name resolution. Did you add a nameserver?

>
> Third, pinging is really slow!  You can see below that a local ping is
> about 60ms.  When I boot to netserver, it drops to 0.6ms.   I know we
> haven't done any optimizations or anything, but I just wanted to point it
> out in case nobody else noticed it.

Try rebuilding with the debug options in the kernel turned Off. The output
will still be in /var/log/syslog :)

> Fourth, does the "netmask" option work in ifconfig?  I tried it and it
> didn't give me an error, but it didn't change it either.  I tried
> "./ifconfig tulip0 inet 65.205.112.85 netmask 255.255.255.240" and
> "./ifconfig tulip0 inet 65.205.112.85 netmask 0xfffffff0".  Both were
> accepted, but neither changed the mask in "ifconfig -a".

It doesn't seem to. Soemthing else to look at (don't think it'll be a big
fix somehow!)

> $ cd ifconfig/
> $ ./ifconfig -a
> tulip0: flags=20<BROADCAST> mtu 1500
> loop0: flags=118<RUNNING,MULTICAST,LOOPBACK> mtu 16384
> $ ./ifconfig tulip0 inet 65.205.112.85
> $ ./ifconfig -a
> tulip0: flags=29<UP,RUNNING,BROADCAST> mtu 1500
>         inet 65.205.112.85 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 65.255.255.255
> loop0: flags=118<RUNNING,MULTICAST,LOOPBACK> mtu 16384
>
>
> $ pwd
> /boot/home/Desktop/OpenBeOS/Apr24/net_kit/source/apps/ping
> $ ../ifconfig/ifconfig -a
> tulip0: flags=29<UP,RUNNING,BROADCAST> mtu 1500
>         inet 65.205.112.85 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 65.255.255.255
> loop0: flags=118<RUNNING,MULTICAST,LOOPBACK> mtu 16384
> $ ping 65.205.112.85
> PING 65.205.112.85 (65.205.112.85): 56 data bytes
> --- 65.205.112.85 ping statistics ---
> 4 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
>
> $ ping 65.205.112.81
> PING 65.205.112.81 (65.205.112.81): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 65.205.112.81: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=66.367 ms
> 64 bytes from 65.205.112.81: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=59.180 ms
> --- 65.205.112.81 ping statistics ---
> 2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss
> round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 59.180/62.773/66.367/3.602 ms
>
> $ route add default 65.205.112.81
> add net default: gateway 65.205.112.81
> $ ../ping/ping 207.71.3.4
> PING 207.71.3.4 (207.71.3.4): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 207.71.3.4: icmp_seq=0 ttl=249 time=114.111 ms
> 64 bytes from 207.71.3.4: icmp_seq=1 ttl=249 time=92.830 ms
> --- 207.71.3.4 ping statistics ---
> 2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss
> round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 92.830/103.470/114.111/10.645 ms

Great feedback! Keep up the excellent support :)

david

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