From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 6 08:51:53 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA05265 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 08:51:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pop01.globecomm.net (pop01.globecomm.net [206.253.129.185]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA05256 for ; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 08:51:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pmurphy@earthling.net) Received: from earthling.net (dialin734.toronto.globalserve.net [209.90.132.225]) by pop01.globecomm.net (8.9.0/8.8.0) with ESMTP id LAA09768; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 11:50:59 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <36939285.AF7EB2B0@earthling.net> Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 11:42:45 -0500 From: Paul Murphy X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Hugh Blandford , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Windows 98 + FreeBSD 2.2.8 LAN (Help) References: <3.0.6.32.19990106152955.008b9a90@mail.island.net.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hugh Blandford wrote: > > Hi Paul, > > if the machines are all on the same network then you do not need any route > commands. The machines will use ARP to discover each other and you will Before I added the 'route' command I got 'no route to host'. (they are _supposed_ to be on the same network.) They are as follows: Win98 machine 1 = 192.168.1.3 (Downstairs.conyers.net) Win98 machine 2 = 192.168.1.2 (Upstairs.conyers.net) FreeBSD machine = 192.168.1.4 (Nebula.conyers.net) Hub (assigned in FreeBSD) = 192.168.1.10 (Hub.conyers.net) netmask = 255.255.255.0 > then be able to ping them. Unless you do something with Samba you will > never be able to see the FreeBSD machine in the network neighbourhood. > I suspected as much. Will try it. > Regards, > > Hugh Blandford > > At 23:15 5/01/99 -0500, you wrote: > >Need help setting up a LAN with 2 Windows machines and one FreeBSD The purpose of this experiment is to have the FreeBSD machine act as a mail server for the LAN and in the (distant) future act as a gateway/firewall to the Internet. The trouble seems to be that Windows has no 'routing table' for the LAN. When I ping the FreeBSD machine from Windows it starts Dial-up, and when I ping the Windows machines from FreeBSD I get no response. p.s. On the Win98 machines TCP/IP is enabled as the default protocol, DNS is disabled. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message