From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 31 20:10:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from opus.ies-energy.com (opus.ies-energy.com [208.128.113.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91313156C4 for ; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 20:10:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from a03572@opus.ies-energy.com) Received: from opus.ies-energy.com (opus.ies-energy.com [208.128.113.35]) by opus.ies-energy.com (0.1/0.1) with SMTP id WAA13133; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 22:10:04 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 22:10:04 -0600 (CST) From: Jeff Fisher To: Roelof Osinga Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Routing probs. In-Reply-To: <3702C502.4BB53D29@eboa.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Roelof Osinga wrote: > > Jeff Fisher wrote: > > > > Ok, I know I've made some stupid mistake, but I can't figure it out. > > > > I have two interfaces in a box. One is on the internal network, and > > ... > > When I try to ping from the external interface, I get host down messages. When I > > try to ping from an external box to the external interface, I get the same messages. > > I doubt it's the interface, since I used ed0 as the only interface when I first set > > up the box. > > Alas, no help. Instead I got the very same problem you do. I even swapped > NICs to eliminate hardware problems. Alas, it was a dumb mistake on my end... I had plugged it into the hub, and watched the link light come on the hub. I forgot to check the card... It ended up being a bad cable between the two patch panels. Nothing like embarrasing myself in public. :-( ----- Jeff Fisher UNIX Sys Admin - Alliant Energy jeff@ies-energy.com ... A booming voice says, "Wrong, cretin!", and you notice that you have turned into a pile of dust. - fortune To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message