From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 19 18:47:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cwalk.org (cx521708-b.pv1.ca.home.com [24.177.2.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 474C137B422 for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 18:47:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from butthead (butthead.walker [192.168.1.10]) by cwalk.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA38850; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 18:49:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cwalker@cwalk.org) Message-ID: <003501c022a4$74369910$0a01a8c0@walker> From: "Caleb Walker" To: "Caleb Walker" , "Chris Hill" , "Danny Byers" Cc: References: <002501c022a3$173d4980$0a01a8c0@walker> Subject: Re: ADSL, FreeBSD gateway, slow web browsing Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 18:45:28 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Caleb Walker" To: "Chris Hill" ; "Danny Byers" Cc: Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 6:35 PM Subject: Re: ADSL, FreeBSD gateway, slow web browsing > I am sorry for this poorly formatted email I am working from another machine > in my > network. As a side point does anyone know how to make this cheezy outlook > express > wrap lines at 72 or something?? I am pressing cr after every line here... > anyway > enough of that crap and on to your question... > > For a 192.168.X.X address you would use a 255.255.255.0 subnet mask to keep > with the class C address. You can use 255.255.0.0 for this small network I > am sure, > but really you should use a class C subnet mask. > > For your little network dont even touch your hosts file. Windows machines > need > no hosts names to talk to each other they use NetBIOS names that are all > braodcast > through netBIOS or TCP/IP better known as NBT. If you want to go even I meant to say NetBIOS over TCP/IP not or TCP/IP sorry... > further > you could implement LMHOSTS or a WINS for NetBIOS name resolution but that > is > highly not needed. > As far as our Internet problem I am not sure there is not really enough info > for me to > come to a conclusion but you should try all of the different tools for > tcp/ip like ping > and tracert(tracert is only on WINNT you could also get third party > traceroute programs > like visual route or something or you could use traceroute from BSD) Your > IP > addressing looks good as far as I can tell from here. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chris Hill" > To: "Danny Byers" > Cc: > Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 5:51 PM > Subject: Re: ADSL, FreeBSD gateway, slow web browsing > > > > On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Danny Byers wrote: > > > > > All PC's on the network have the freebsd box as gateway: 192.168.0.1 > with my > > > ISP's primary and secondary DNS servers listed as they should (all are > Win98 > > > boxes). They are also all assigned their own IP (192.168.0.2-4). What > should > > > their Subnet Mask be? > > > > I have a similar setup and used to use internal IPs like yours. I think > > the netmask for those IPs should be 255.255.0.0. Having said that, I had > > some odd things happening (can't recall just what, right now) with that > > arrangement. I changed my internal IPs to 192.168.1.xxx, and set all > > internal netmasks to 255.255.255.0 and things work better now. You > > might consider doing the same. > > > > > The problem that I am experiencing is that web browsing/file > > > downloading on the internally networked PC's is not working. > > > > > > For example, I am working on a Win98 PC (connected to the hub) and I > > > type in a website address (www.yahoo.com) and goes as far as saying > > > "Tranferring Data" and then things just hang... no network activity or > > > anything. The same thing happens when I try to download files from > > > FTP... > > > > So it's not just slow, but broken. I'm having a similar problem the last > > few days; if I knew the answer I'd share it :^( > > > > [big snip] > > > > > Do I need to have a /etc/hosts file setup? > > > > Only if you want them to talk to each other by name (or you could run > > DNS internally). If you're willing to type IP addresses, you don't need > > either. > > > > > And I suppose it should contain the list of all internal PCs with > > > their allocated IPs? > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message