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Digiboard Serial Ports on Linux Servers
Recently I have been working on a RedHat server installing all manner of stuff including serial ports. This customer has an 56K DDS line under contract for a few more years so we went with a Digi C/X controller to match what was in their SCO server. When I asked Digi tech support about a couple of things that weren't clear they suggested that I forget the the software and epca drivers that came with the controller and instead download and install their dgap drivers which comes with their familiar mpi software for configuring the board
Troubleshooting network connections with arp I noted that the hostnames had come from /etc/hosts and saw that the IP addresses matched the names shown. MAC address ranges are assigned by the IEEE to electronics manufacturers to ensure that MAC addresses are globally unique. The Intelliserver claimed to be from a manufacturer identified by 00:06:25 and that there was another device on the LAN from the same manufacturer. I thought this was unlikely and used a PC to browse to http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/index.shtml where I typed in 000625 and out popped Linksys Corporation.
Troubleshooting network connections with arp I noted that the hostnames had come from /etc/hosts and saw that the IP addresses matched the names shown. MAC address ranges are assigned by the IEEE to electronics manufacturers to ensure that MAC addresses are globally unique. The Intelliserver claimed to be from a manufacturer identified by 00:06:25 and that there was another device on the LAN from the same manufacturer. I thought this was unlikely and used a PC to browse to http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/index.shtml where I typed in 000625 and out popped Linksys Corporation.
