satstuff not okay! is it the way the inet addr is allocated?

[Robin Edgar Tripany <red@tripany.com>]

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I tried it and got the same results as before...
can't get a ping response. On any of the transponders.
First of all, when i load dvbd, the sound dissappears completely.
ifconfig gives me a good dvb0 card:
dvb0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:D0:5C:00:BE:44
          inet addr:192.168.4.1  Bcast:192.168.4.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
and the modules seem to be loading allright:
Module                  Size  Used by
tuner                   3756   0  (unused)
dvb                  1340208   1
VES1820                 3392   0  (unused)
VES1893                 3572   0  (unused)
saa7146_v4l            15132   0  (unused)
saa7146_core           13820   0  [dvb saa7146_v4l]
i2c-core               11068   0  [tuner dvb VES1820 VES1893
saa7146_core]
ip_masq_vdolive         1432   0  (unused)
ip_masq_user            2664   0  (unused)
ip_masq_raudio          3064   0  (unused)
ip_masq_quake           1448   0  (unused)
ip_masq_irc             1624   0  (unused)
ip_masq_ftp             2552  16
ip_masq_cuseeme         1176   0  (unused)
rtl8139                11904   1
Now, when I ping 192.168.4.1 and tcpdump -i dvb0 in another terminal, i
see nothing!
When I tcpdump -i lo i see:
4:55:03.870165 192.168.4.1 > 192.168.4.1: icmp: echo request
14:55:03.870165 192.168.4.1 > 192.168.4.1: icmp: echo request
14:55:03.870210 192.168.4.1 > 192.168.4.1: icmp: echo reply
14:55:03.870210 192.168.4.1 > 192.168.4.1: icmp: echo reply
14:55:04.870186 192.168.4.1 > 192.168.4.1: icmp: echo request
14:55:04.870186 192.168.4.1 > 192.168.4.1: icmp: echo request
14:55:04.870233 192.168.4.1 > 192.168.4.1: icmp: echo reply
14:55:04.870233 192.168.4.1 > 192.168.4.1: icmp: echo reply
(as expected).
 
However, when i ping 192.168.4.0, i get no ping reply, but on tcpdump -i
dvb0 i get:
tcpdump: listening on dvb0
14:56:19.300198 192.168.4.1 > 192.168.4.0: icmp: echo request
14:56:20.300182 192.168.4.1 > 192.168.4.0: icmp: echo request
14:56:21.300695 192.168.4.1 > 192.168.4.0: icmp: echo request
14:56:22.300198 192.168.4.1 > 192.168.4.0: icmp: echo request
and on tcpdump i- lo i get nothing!
 
so something seems to be going wrong with the dvb0 interface i guess
 
Finally, in iptraf, it sees lo, ppp0 and eth0 as interfaces to be
monitored, but significantly NO dvb0!
Draw your own conclusions... I have no idea anymore... I've done this
with the entire firewall taken down as well...
 
cheers,
Robin Edgar