[plug] temporary gateway

[Bernd Felsche]

On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 07:50:23AM +0800, William Kenworthy wrote:
> I am trying to set up an old machine as a temporary gateway.
> However, when ppp comes up, the internal lan on a isa bus card
> disappears.  I think this is more a hardware issue than a firewall
> etc. An occasional packet, often corrupt will get through on a
> continuous ping (3% of ~3000 packets)

What does ifconfig say once ppp is running?

> Some time ago (a year or two) someone (Leon?)suggested IRQ's as
> being a possible cause, but I never followed it up.  Does anyone
> have any ideas on how to get this working?   The lan performerance
> is quite good for 10M coax - until ppp comes up!

Check /proc/interrupts and /proc/ports.

The NIC may have jumper-select for a different IRQ and ports; and
the onboard (?) serial ports usually have IRQ and ports settable
through BIOS.

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