From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 8 20: 2: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.hutchtel.net (ns1.hutchtel.net [206.9.112.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5B9E37BBFF for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 20:01:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jpaetzel@hutchtel.net) Received: from mark8 (hutch-646.hutchtel.net [206.10.68.174]) by ns1.hutchtel.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with SMTP id WAA11368; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 22:01:55 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <01b501c001af$12b12e00$ae440ace@mark8> From: "Josh Paetzel" To: "Chris D'Annunzio" , References: <398E3E2B.DD48E30B@oz.net> Subject: Re: Routing problem (Default Gateway?) on laptop Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 22:08:19 -0500 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 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris D'Annunzio" To: Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2000 11:42 PM Subject: Routing problem (Default Gateway?) on laptop > Hello, > > Working on setting up FreeBSD 4.1 on my laptop (Dell Latitude CPi) and > having a problem communicating outside my LAN. I struggled a bit with > my PCMCIA network card (LinkSys EtherFast PCMPC100 10/100), but seem to > have it up and configured now. > > I can ping all hosts on my local network segment including my default > gateway, but I can't ping any outside hosts including my DNS server. > All other hosts on the same network segement are communicating fine. > > I've got my default gateway entry specified appropriately in my rc.conf > file and I'm at a bit of a loss for what to try next. > You need to give the address of your DNS server in the file /etc/resolv.conf put in a line like this: nameserver 209.98.xx.xx use the ip address for your nameserver of course. Josh > Some interesting stuff that I think might be related: > When I issue a "netstat -r" command, it prints out the column headers > for the routing table and then just hangs. > If I issue a "route delete default" command and then the netstat command > it prints out the routing table correctly. > If I reassign the default gateway entry with a "route add default > xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" command, netstat hangs again. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > Chris > > > > 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