[CUBE] Weird ethernet thing

[Richard Clark]

On Sabato, giu 7, 2003, at 22:25 Europe/Rome, David Goetzka wrote:

> I'm helping a friend troubleshoot a problem he's having. He uses Mac's 
> exclusively in his company. Everything from Beige G3's to the latest 
> PowerMac G4 towers running some with Mac OS 9.2.2 and most running 
> 10.2.6. He also has 3 cubes. Every Mac in the shop connects to his 
> 4-Sight Fax server with no problems. One of the Cubes can connect, but 
> it is running 9.2.2. The other two Cubes are running Jaguar and can't 
> connect and receive faxes. I can send faxes, but can't receive. As a 
> side note, the software is Java based.
>
> At first I thought it's a half-duplex or full-duplex issue. I manually 
> changed from half to full and from TX to UDP using ifconfig in the 
> terminal. This didn't help.
>
> I have the Console running and enabled logging and can watch the 
> 4-Sight client software trying to connect, but never does connect.
>
> 4-Sight has been little help. They don't have a Cube to test the 
> software on, so they basically said that if I send them a Cube, they 
> will test it when they get around to it. My friend loves his Cubes and 
> doesn't want to scrap them and get something else like an iMac or > eMac.
>
> I've scoured the internet for more info on this, but haven't had much 
> luck. One of my favorite sites (macosxhints.com) had a posting where a 
> user had a problem connecting to a service and solved the problem by 
> using ifconfig to change the MTU (maximum transmission unit) from the 
> default of 1500.
>
> Again, 4-Sight works on all Macs except the 2 Cubes running Jaguar. 
> All the Cubes have the same firmware and or stock 450 MHz with the 
> exception of video, ram, and hard drive upgrades. They are running the 
> latest versions of Java. All the Cubes connect to all other services 
> on the network and can file share, surf and email with no problems.
>
> Has anybody on the list seen weird networking issues with other 
> programs and successfully fixed them?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> David

are you sure the ethernet is working did you try plugging it in 
directly somewhere?
Does this fax server use appletalk or something maybe that needs to be 
turned on?
Richard