We have a AW51E installed few years back but the second ethernet Port were never used,But now we have to connect the same to a CISCO 3550 series switch, where all the other PLANT wide Stations WP,AW,AP stations are connected. However I am not able to Ping to the same port or to any other stations. For your Info.we are using DNBT to connect to Nodebus also ping B2AW11hme1 - message as below ICMP Host Unreachable from gateway B2AW11 (151.128.17.201) for icmp from B2AW11 (151.128.17.201) to b2aw11hme1 (192.69.11.163) All the related files are updated as below Example: /etc/hosts secondport 192.69.11.163 Example: /etc/hostname.hme2 secondport OK show-devs /pci@1f,4000/SUNW,hme@2,1 Ethernet FCode selftest Diagnostic done Hme register test -- succeeded Internal loopback test -- succeeded Transceiver check -- Link up ifconfig -a does not show 2 ethernet ports. lo0: flags=849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 8232 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000 hme0: flags=863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 151.128.17.201 netmask ffff0000 broadcast 151.128.255.255 ether 8:0:20:8f:18:31 Card used SUN Part#501-4359 ( Fast Ethernet PCI Adapter). Checks done to confirm 1.Ethernet Cable replaced 2.Card tested in our DCS Lab working fine, able to ping. Thanks & regards Ajit - SAMREF ,SA _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave