From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 27 21:44:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA05129 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 21:44:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ophelia.uoregon.edu (sharding@ophelia.uoregon.edu [128.223.194.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA05122 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 21:44:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sharding@ophelia.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (sharding@localhost) by ophelia.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id VAA02507; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 21:43:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sharding@ophelia.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 21:43:47 -0800 (PST) From: Sean Harding Reply-To: Sean Harding To: "Saffa J. Kemokai" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Host is down ... In-Reply-To: <351CB76A.24FD240A@sulima.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 Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Saffa J. Kemokai wrote: > But when you ping from from this BSD box, you get "host is down" msg and > from all indications, you are reasonably certain that the BSD is not > making the trip to/thru the router ... WHERE DO YOU GO FROM HERE ..??? If you make all of the above assumptions, your options are quite limited. It sounds to me that your default route isn't set correctly. Take a look at the output of 'netstat -rn'. Make sure 'default' is correct. Mine looks like this: default 128.223.194.1 UGSc 28 2379 ed1 sean -- "Believe me, the truth is we're not honest. Not the people that we dream." --10,000 Maniacs, "Eden" Sean Harding, sharding@oregon.uoregon.edu http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~sharding/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message