Re: ftp/telnet connect: Connection timeout

[Fritz Code]

Hey Bill,

actually you are right. The MAC was the problem.
I have configured another MAC (00:00 ...) now and it works.

Thanks,
Fritz Code

On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 8:00 AM, Bill Fink <billfink@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, Fritz Code wrote:
>
>> im using an embedded arm9 system.
>> I boot the system through a initrd. The initrd contains the kernel
>> (2.4.21) and the root-filesystem.
>>
>> After the boot a script executes the following to bring up the network:
>>
>> hostname embedded-system
>> ifconfig eth0 add 192.168.0.151 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
>> route add -net default gw 192.168.0.1
>>
>> I have problems  with the network. If I use e.g. "ftp server-ip" or
>> "telnet server-ip" I always get:
>> "connect: Connection timed out" after approx one or two minutes.
>>
>> The server I try to connect to is running no firewall, I can establish
>> a connection to the server from another client successfully.
>> I can ping from the embedded system to the server and vice versa.
>>
>> ifconfig on the embedded system show no errors or drops. But Im using
>> a strange MAC (11:11:22:22:33:33) although this shouldn't matter since
>> I connect the embedded
>> system and the server directly through a cross-over cable.
>
> It's very possible the MAC address is the problem, since it is a
> multicast Ethernet address (the low order bit of the first octet
> is set).  If you are defining your own MAC address, you should set
> the locally defined bit (second lowest order bit of the first octet),
> and not set the multicast bit (e.g. use "12" instead of "11" for the
> first octet).
>
>                                                -Hope this helps
>
>                                                -Bill
>



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Regards,
--Codefritz
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