From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 6 15:35:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2.Stanford.EDU (smtp2.Stanford.EDU [171.64.14.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12D1E15787 for ; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 15:35:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cscox@jps.net) Received: from WuKong (wukong.Stanford.EDU [171.66.40.72]) by smtp2.Stanford.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3/L) with SMTP id PAA10087 for ; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 15:34:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <000801bf104b$07388740$482842ab@Stanford.EDU> From: "Charles Cox" To: Subject: Can't find localhost Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 15:34:57 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0005_01BF1010.58543CE0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01BF1010.58543CE0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hell(o) everyone, I have just installed freebsd 3.3 on my Pentium class system. I am = still using the generic kernal, although the rebuild is on its way... I = have a newly supported (thanks guys) 3c905c-TX NIC. All of the networking seems to be working fine, with the exception = of one thing, and that it I cannot ping myself. I get an ARPresolve = failure. I was thinking that there was a DNS problem, since I am using = an external server, but that wasn't it. I checked ifconfig -a, and = found that my 3c905c is working in half-duplex mode. Could this be the = problem? Thanks in advance. Chuck ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01BF1010.58543CE0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Hell(o) everyone,

I have just = installed freebsd=20 3.3 on my Pentium class system. I am still using the generic = kernal,=20 although the rebuild is on its way... I have a newly supported = (thanks=20 guys) 3c905c-TX NIC.

All of the = networking seems to=20 be working fine, with the exception of one thing, and that it I cannot = ping=20 myself. I get an ARPresolve failure. I was thinking that = there was a=20 DNS problem, since I am using an external server, but that wasn't = it. I=20 checked ifconfig -a, and found that my 3c905c is working in half-duplex=20 mode. Could this be the problem?

Thanks in advance.

Chuck

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