From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 11 14:22:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA02796 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 14:22:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lites.lvdi.net (lites.lvdi.net [208.129.21.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA02673 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 14:21:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shanmin@lvdi.net) Received: from johnny.lvdi.net (johnny.lvdi.net [208.129.21.14]) by lites.lvdi.net (8.8.7/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA04344 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 14:16:43 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199802112216.OAA04344@lites.lvdi.net> From: "Shan-Min Chao" To: Subject: No route to host Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 14:22:28 -0800 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1161 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi! Thanks for the help, man. Unfortunately, I have already tried that, and it still gives me a "no route to host" message. Any ideas? I will try again... Thanks again! ---------- > From: Mark Castillo > To: Shan-Min Chao > Subject: Re: vx0 > Date: Wednesday, February 11, 1998 1:34 PM > > Have you tried config using the /stand/sysinstall program? It is much > easier to config networking by running the menu oriented options. > > go to post-install configurations, and choose network... then you can choose > your vx0 device and assigne IP address, etc. This will then write the > proper config in /etc/rc.conf for you. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Shan-Min Chao > To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Date: Wednesday, February 11, 1998 12:30 PM > Subject: vx0 > > > >Hi! > > Thank you for the advice about my 3C590 PCI ethernet card! Now, > >for additional help... :) > > > >What do I have to do to configure my ethernet card so that > >other (Win95)computers on the LAN can ping it? All I have done > >so far is recognize that my ethernet card is under the vx0 > >device name. How do I make sure the computer detected > >the card? > > > >Now, for the next step, I think you have to mess around with > >the rc.conf file, right? If I remebered correctly, you have to > >do something with the ifconfig_lo0="inet localhost" line > >under the file. What do I have to change it to? I am basically > >setting up my FreeBSD machine to be able to ping back and > >forth with my other peer computers. I am in no way connected > >to the internet and doing anything fancy for now. Is there > >any other files I have to configure my ethernet with? > > > >Any help will be appreciated. Thank you very much for being > >there! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message