Hi all,
I’m posting here in the hope someone can help me get to the bottom of this networking issue I’m having with one of my BeagleBone Black’s. I have two identical units (Rev A5C) but am having trouble pinging one of them successfully when running Debian Wheezy (debian-wheezy-7.0.0-armhf-3.8.13-bone20.img to be exact).
The Debian installations are booted from two micro SD card’s, which are clones of each other apart from the fact that SD card 1 hands out IP 192.168.7.3 and SD card 2 hands out IP 192.168.7.4. These are both connected to my laptop though an unmanaged switch, and the laptop has a static IP of 192.168.7.10.
If I plug SD card 1 into BBB1 and ping 192.168.7.3, no problem, I get a response. When pinging 192.168.7.4 with SD card 2 in BBB2 however, no response.
To try to isolate the problem, I left the ethernet setup alone and simply switched the SD cards. The IP’s for each BBB change as expected, but it’s the same one that refuses to respond. As a further test I also switched the network cables going to each BBB, with same result - it’s the same board that doesn’t respond. Finally, I also tried switching over the power adapters used for each board (which are identical, but still) - and still the same board doesn’t respond.
Following this I suspected a hardware fault with the ethernet adapter, but when running the default Angstrom image from eMMC I can ping each board successfully on 192.168.7.2.
Conclusion: it doesn’t seem to be a hardware fault, but it doesn’t quite seem to be a software fault either, but there’s definitely a fault somewhere! Any ideas?
Regards,
Graham