[ixp1200] Connectivity problems

[Nimit Sawhney]

Magesh,

Do you have the "l3fwdr" running on the IXP?
Also, the cables should be cross-over and not
straight-thru.

-N

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Magesh Kannan" <magesh at ittc.ku.edu>
To: <ixp1200 at CS.Princeton.EDU>
Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 5:50 PM
Subject: [ixp1200] Connectivity problems


> Hi,
> 
> What kind of cabling is needed to connect the 10/100 ethernet ports on the 
> IXP1200 to an ethernet card on another PC? I tried CAT-5 crossover cable
> but the LEDs on either card do not come on. I also tried straight through
> cable. The orange LED on the IXP ethernet port blinks and the Link LED on
> the other card also blinks, but it seems that connectivity is not fine.
> 
> Should the ports be explicitly brought up? I only added the MAC
> and IP addresses of the two machines that I am trying to connect via the
> IXP1200 to the route cache in ipmm.c. Ping from either machine does not
> work and debug output on IXP's serial port does not seem to indicate any
> packet reception.
> 
> Thanks,
> Magesh
> 
> 
>