A4000 w/Ariadne need help to get on LAN

I'm struggling to get my Amiga4000 online.

I'm using an Ariadne network card (1.2B). My local
network consists of a PC (192.168.0.10), a Linux
gateway NAT'ed to the outside (192.168.0.1), and
my trusty old Amiga (192.168.0.7). These machines
are connected with a HUB.

Since I lost the install disk for the Ariadne card, I
had to find the ariadne.device driver (1.5). I put that
in SYS:Devs/Networks/. I made a config file in
ENVARC:Sana2/ called ariadne0.config (since I'm
using the upmost Zorro slot). This config file has
one line (10BASET).

I installed AmiTCP 4.0 Demo, and set it up with the
appropriate(?) data.

I got this:
    Pin 1: (LED 1) Twisted pair MAU link status
    Pin 2: (LED 2) Transmit status
    Pin 4: (LED 3) Collision
    Pin 6: (LED 4) Receive status
from here:
http://www.amiga-hardware.com/ariadne.html

When booting, two LEDs on the Ariadne card lights
up (when I have a cable connected to the HUB).
Those are 1 and 3 (link status and Collision). A
yellow light lights up on the HUB (indicating a 10
Mbit connection). When I log on (with the AmiTCP
script) and press OK on the AmiTCP splash screen,
LED 3 stops glowing.

When I try to ping the gateway or my PC on the LAN
from the Amiga, LED 2 and 4 blinks briefly once
every second and the ACT lamp on the HUB blinks
a bit in about the same pace. When terminating
the ping program, it reports 100% packet loss.

When I try to ping the Amiga from the PC or the
gateway, it results in the same (100% packet loss).

When sniffing with tcpdump from the gateway on
the HUB and pinging the gateway from the Amiga,
tcpdump reports the following:

arp who-has 192.168.0.1 tell 192.168.0.7
arp reply 192.168.0.1 is-at 0:10:a7:9:c7:e5.

..so at least the Ariadne card is able to transmit
data to the LAN, but not receive? Why then, does the
Receive-LED blink? Have I done something wrong
when installing AmiTCP? Have I forgotten to set up
or configure something in relation to the
ariadne.device driver?

Help on this is very appreciated.


Thanks,
Jostein Trondal

[Graff]

Hi Jostein

I'm not that much into AmiTCP - there are way too many config
files for my taste in there. So I can't help you with AmiTCP
specifically.
But if you're using a demo ony, why not try out Miami instead?
Miami has a much more user-friendly interface making it more
easy (in my oppinion) to connect.

I've just finished setting up a MiamiDx machine as router
for my ADSL, and has another machine running behind it with
IP-NAT using Miami also.


Regards
Thomas Graff Thøger

[Castellen]

Hard so say for sure, but maybe it's the incorrect device driver you've got.
Note that the ariadne.device between the Ariadne 1 & 2 is NOT compatible between
the cards.

Send me your email addr and I'll DMS you an image of my Ariadne 1 install disk.

As for using AmiTCP/Genesis, it will work, but the setup is a bit more fiddly
than Miami, which I'm more familiar with.

Once you can correctly ping each machine's IP address, you need to enter each IP
address along with host hames into the host name database of AmiTCP/Miami.
Then you should be able to "ping Mac1" for example, and it should work.

If you want to share files, printers, etc; you'll need to install Samba, a
network file system.  That's a whole different process though, I won't go into
it right here

I'm pretty sure I have the correct driver. The version
string says $VER: ariadne.device 1.50 (10.12.96) (c)
1994-1996 Village Tronic Marketing GmbH.

It'd be great test the Ariadne install disk. Please
email it to me: jallamekk@hotmail.com

Maybe there are some magic tricks in the install-
scripts on the floppy.

I tested with Miami but I got the same results.

Someone told me to try flushing the arp cache on
the gateway but it did not help.


--
Jostein Trondal
jallamekk@hotmail.com

[Markus_Bieler]

Try

http://www.sophisticated-development.de/software/

for the latest Village Tronic software. (The remaining part of VT-Amiga department)

Markus

Thanks for all your help people. I've tried lots of
different things now; upgrading the device driver,
different cables, mounting an 8mb RAD disk and
installed a clean OS with Miami, setting the arp
cache manually (on both the amiga and the
gateway), swearing and cursing.

I have only one plausible explanation. The card
has a hardware malfunction that makes it unable
to receive data. Maybe the TP-socket is broken
or something.

 :-x


--
Jostein Trondal

[Markus_Bieler]

If you have MiamiDX then use the mni-drivers coming with miami.

Set the cards to halfduplex. (You can change that later to fullduplex)

I had to delete everything on the PC concerning VPN.

MY network (curently)

PC  3COM Combo pci 192.168.0.2
A4000T ariadne 192.168.0.3
A2000 ariadne 192.168.0.4

Try to connect the amiga via a crossover-cable directly to the pc.

[Jope]

Cujo wrote:
Thanks for all your help people. I've tried lots of
different things now; upgrading the device driver,
different cables, mounting an 8mb RAD disk and
installed a clean OS with Miami, setting the arp
cache manually (on both the amiga and the
gateway), swearing and cursing.

Did you try another port in the hub?

Is the hub 10 or 10/100M?