From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Mar 9 08:09:15 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 899F89DB3E2; Wed, 9 Mar 2016 08:09:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@bsdjunk.com) Received: from outbound2.mail.transip.nl (outbound2.mail.transip.nl [IPv6:2a01:7c8:7c8::73]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 56163CC7; Wed, 9 Mar 2016 08:09:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@bsdjunk.com) Received: from submission1.mail.transip.nl (submission1.mail.transip.nl [IPv6:2a01:7c8:7c8::65]) by outbound2.mail.transip.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3qKmJj57MpzYxXG; Wed, 9 Mar 2016 09:09:09 +0100 (CET) Received: from webmail.frontend (web2.mail.transip.nl [149.210.149.97]) by submission1.mail.transip.nl (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 3qKmJl506hz2X09; Wed, 9 Mar 2016 09:09:11 +0100 (CET) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2016 02:09:11 -0600 From: chris@bsdjunk.com To: Manish Jain Cc: User Questions , owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help needed to re-connect FreeBSD to internet In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: X-Sender: chris@bsdjunk.com User-Agent: Webmail X-Scanned-By: ClueGetter at submission1.mail.transip.nl X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse@transip.nl X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2016 08:09:15 -0000 On 2016-03-09 01:59, Manish Jain wrote: > Hi, > > I am using a dual-boot machine Windows XP SP3 and FreeBSD 10.2 amd64, > using a Wi-Fi modem connected to the PC with a LAN cable. Till a > couple of days back, the systems had no issue connecting to internet > and the world seemed rosy. All of a sudden, yesterday disaster struck > and neither was able open up any site in the web browser. > > Help from the service provider got the Windows system working again. I > enabled Internet Connection Sharing and replaced DHCP with > 192.168.10.3 for the PC and 192.168.10.1 for the Wi-Fi modem > (default_router). While the Windows connects to the internet now, the > FreeBSD box remains stuck with roughly those same settings. > > ifconfig re0 : > re0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu > 1500 > options=8209b > > ether 50:46:5d:66:fd:10 > inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 255.255.255.255 > nd6 options=29 > media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX ) > status: active > > pinging 192.168.1.1 produces 'no route to host' and 100.0% packet > loss. At boot-time, the system seems to attempt getting a DHCP lease > multiple times without success. > > cat /etc/resolv.conf : > > nameserver 192.168.1.1 > > cat /etc/rc.conf : > > hostname="freebsd10dot2.amd64.local" > ifconfig_re0="DHCP" > sshd_enable="YES" > # Set dumpdev to "AUTO" to enable crash dumps, "NO" to disable > dumpdev="AUTO" > keyrate="fast" > apcupsd_enable="YES" > dbus_enable="YES" > hald_enable="YES" > gnome_enable="YES" > linux_enable="YES" > mysql_enable="YES" > fusefs_enable="YES" > atapicam_load="YES" > cupsd_enable="NO" > > > Can someone please point me to what might be the error/changes needed > for my FreeBSD box to connect to internet again ? Thank you. > > -- > Regards, > > Manish Jain Hi, By the looks of it you changed the IP but forgot to add the default route. http://handbook.bsdjunk.com/network-routing.html When using a static IP you're required to add in a infconfig_nic0="" and defaultroute="" or else it has no where to route the packets. once you do that you can test using service netif restart && service routing restart Chris