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Date:      Thu, 14 Sep 2006 20:21:05 +0900
From:      Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Network connectivity between FreeBSD and Linux
Message-ID:  <49B0565D-2C10-43CF-AB15-9CD712EFC074@u.washington.edu>
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On Sep 14, 2006, at 8:15 PM, Arindam wrote:

>>
>> > I have FreeBSD 6.1 installed on one machine and Fedora Core 2 on
>> > another. I dual boot the FreeBSD 6.1 machine with a RedHat EL 4.3
>> > installation. I have assigned the same static IP address and  
>> hostname
>> > to this machine for both the FreeBSD and RHEL installations.
>> >
>> > While my RHEL installation is running, I am able to communicate  
>> with
>> > the FC2 installation over the network. When FreeBSD is running, all
>> > pings from either side fail. I have no clue if I need to look at  
>> some
>> > special configuration, or is it a problem with the basics.
>> >
>> > Wond'ring what to do.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Andy
>> > --
>>
>> /sbin/ifconfig output? Also, do you happen to have a firewall in your
>> FreeBSD OS setup :)?
>
> 1. It will take me a while to get the ifconfig output. Will post it in
> a few hours may be.
> 2. I am FreeBSD newbie. I am not sure how to check if a firewall is
> running. I doubt if there is ... I don't remember installing one. Can
> please you tell me how to look?
>
>> -Garrett
>
> Cheers,
> Andy

If you didn't compile it into the kernel, there should be a directive  
in /etc/rc.conf with the term "firewall" or "pf" for example if you  
have one running.
-Garrett



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