From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 25 14:13:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCA5C37B400 for ; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 14:13:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp-2.enteract.com (smtp-2.enteract.com [207.229.143.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BD3843E75 for ; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 14:13:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jtm63@enteract.com) Received: from jamestown.21stcentury.net (24-148-62-230.na.21stcentury.net [24.148.62.230]) by smtp-2.enteract.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B1C36321; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 16:13:53 -0500 (CDT) Received: from jamestown.21stcentury.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jamestown.21stcentury.net (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7PLDqSa028267; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 16:13:52 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jtm@jamestown.21stcentury.net) Received: (from jtm@localhost) by jamestown.21stcentury.net (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g7PLDord028264; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 16:13:51 -0500 (CDT) To: Cc: Subject: Re: broken arp References: <004001c24ba5$7bc106d0$a5e8a3ce@effortnix> From: James McNaughton Date: 25 Aug 2002 16:13:49 -0500 In-Reply-To: <004001c24ba5$7bc106d0$a5e8a3ce@effortnix> Message-ID: <86elcm8wvm.fsf@jamestown.21stcentury.net> Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG writes: > Hello all, > > Okay here is what happened. I have two external boxes. one freebsd and one > windows xp. Okay, I use my ISP's gateway. I changed the address on my > windows xp box to the xxx.xxx.xxx.254(isp gateway) address and got a message > on my freebsd box saying 'ethernet address of xxx.xxx.xxx.254 changed from > :xx:xx:xx:xx(mac address of the gateway) changed to xx:xx:xx:xx(mac address > of the windows xp box). Okay, don't ask me why i did this :-/, but now the > freebsd box can't ping the gateway or send/recieve any traffic. ANY help > would be appreciated :o) > > kr0nograffik@sasktel.net Did you change the windows IP back to something else? It's a little hard to determine what is going on without more info. What's your physical network setup, e.g. LAN connetced to cable modem, T1, etc. Do you get a static IP for each box or does the ISP gateway do NAT? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message