From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Sep 13 8:45:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from cell-works.com (cell-works.com [64.220.255.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5021B37B40F for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 08:45:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (john@localhost) by cell-works.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA08302 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 11:59:32 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from john@cell-works.com) Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 11:59:31 -0400 (EDT) From: John Daniel To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: bright spot Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I finally got my new( recently built freebsd box to connect to comcast @home) i used the instruction at www.freebsddiary.org/athome but it still didn't work. there were 2 reasons why the first was ipfw was configured with a default deny all ip so I would get a access denied message. i fixed that by adding a new rule for testing purposes only to allow all ip ( I don't intend to leave that rule but it was a quick fix for testing purposes) that got rid of the access denied message but pings were still disappearing no reply. finally I figured I would look at the rc files before running to look for help. rc.conf in /etc was fine but there was a line in the in the default rc.conf file in the that said the natd interface( the public interface) was my intel card not my 3com card. when i added a corrected line to /etc/rc.conf ping worked.YIPPEE. Now all i have to do is upgrade to stable rebuild my kernel add firewall rules and get natd running. again Yippee. PAX ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Don't want no trouble , don't start no trouble." -Some actor in some sitcom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message