Just a thought: I'm guessing this is an autonegotiation issue. The other end
of the WAN cable plugs into a Linksys 10/100 half/full duplex hub which is
autonegotiating. It looks like it has some age to it, and the owner of that
switch says it is unmanaged.

Is there a way to force the LAN port to full duplex? I had to do this once
before with a different device and it worked.

On 5/9/06, Brian McEntire <brian dot mcentire at gmail dot com> wrote:
>
> Anyone seen this?
>
> We had a working prototype setup with a generic PC and 3 interfaces (LAN
> unused, WAN, OPT1). I transferred over the config to the Soekris box,
> plugged each cable into the respective port on the Soekris box, and powered
> it up. The link lights come on, but the interface status in monowall says
> WAN port down.
>
> We are running the 45xx v1.22 version of Monowall on the 4502 Soekris (I
> believe, it was the one with the empty CF card, 3 ethernet ports, and 64 MB
> RAM.)
>