From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 1 15:30:54 2003 Return-Path: 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 E58A037B415 for ; Thu, 1 May 2003 15:30:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vfemail.net (www.vfemail.net [64.243.213.214]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DDF743FA3 for ; Thu, 1 May 2003 15:30:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gcn53@vfemail.net) Received: (qmail 78374 invoked by uid 85); 1 May 2003 22:30:45 -0000 Received: from gcn53@vfemail.net by www.vfemail.net by uid 0 with qmail-scanner-1.13 (avp: 3.0/133. clamscan: 0.54. spamassassin: 2.31. Clear:. Processed in 1.189247 secs); 01 May 2003 22:30:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (127.0.0.1) by 0 with SMTP; 1 May 2003 22:30:44 -0000 Received: from 172.187.145.133 ( [172.187.145.133]) as user gcn53@vfemail.net@localhost by www.vfemail.net with HTTP; Thu, 1 May 2003 23:30:44 +0100 Message-ID: <1051828244.3eb1a01425b5a@www.vfemail.net> Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 23:30:44 +0100 From: gcn53@vfemail.net To: Bill Moran References: <1051818955.3eb17bcb36c53@www.vfemail.net> <002a01c3101f$026267e0$ca0110ac@vinyl.tkvbp.com> <1051820707.3eb182a3273f6@www.vfemail.net> <3EB183E6.7090008@potentialtech.com> <1051821497.3eb185b9e625c@www.vfemail.net> <3EB19B48.6040407@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <3EB19B48.6040407@potentialtech.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.1 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with networking? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 22:30:55 -0000 Quoting Bill Moran : > gcn53@vfemail.net wrote: > > Quoting Bill Moran : > > > >>I can think of a very limited number of cases where the primary IP on > >>an ethernet card should have the netmask you have. Verify it. > >> > > > > Sorry, forgive my ignorance, but how do I "verify it"? > > I missed the earlier part of the thread, so ... > > If you were given the information by your hosting provider, verify that > it's correct compared to what you have in /etc/rc.conf > My hosting provider did not give me this information. > > Where did you get your IP addy? You should have been provided a netmask > in the same document/conversation/whatever. > The IP address was given to me by the host provider, after the virtual server had been set up. > > Also, based on some other replies to this thread, could you post your > /etc/rc.conf to the list. It may help sort out what's up. > # cat < /etc/rc.conf portmap_enable="NO" sshd_enable="YES" network_interfaces="" # -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Fri Apr 4 14:55:26 2003 named_enable="NO" hostname="graygold" > > Another thing you can do is simply change it to 255.255.255.0 and see if > things start to work. It's possible that that number is wrong, but it > will break _less_ networking than using 255.255.255.255, so you'll be > able to tell if you're on the right track or not: > > ifconfig fxp0 netmask 255.255.255.0 # ifconfig fxp0 netmask 255.255.255.0 ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): permission denied Cheers Graeme