On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 23:55, Christopher George Baron wrote:

After booting up embedded linux on the StrongARM, and assigning MAC addresses to ports 0 through 3, a flood of packets is being sent out of port 3 of the IXP1200. No microengines are doing any processing. I am wondering if anyone else had this problem, or an idea of what it might be.

Thanks, Chris

This problem seems to almost always be due to a 10 Mbps switch/hub/ethernet card somewhere in the system. Despite what the documentation may say, many IXP1200 boards work like crap (or, more likely, at all) in non-idealized environments. Make sure all your components are good. This solved my problems and several other labs as well. Cyrus Hall Computer Science at the University of Colorado