From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 18 8:39:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dns2.seanet.com (dns2.seanet.com [199.181.164.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3117537B5F5 for ; Thu, 18 May 2000 08:39:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from goodleaf@seanet.com) Received: from clyde.goodleaf.net (piscator.seanet.com [199.181.165.218]) by dns2.seanet.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) with ESMTP id IAA14336; Thu, 18 May 2000 08:36:56 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 08:47:03 -0700 (PDT) From: "J. Goodleaf" X-Sender: goodleaf@clyde.goodleaf.net To: bill fiore Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nic card w/ cable modem In-Reply-To: <20000518143042.1049.qmail@web701.mail.yahoo.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 Are you trying to communicate with a LAN? Do you have a second NIC? You may need to do DHCP for the nic connected to the cable modem and if you're trying to talk to other local machines, you'll probably need a second nic configured in the same manner as the other network interfaces in the LAN (DHCP or static IPs in the same domain/netmask.) More info I guess would be nice. -J On Thu, 18 May 2000, bill fiore wrote: > i got my nic card (3com etherlink 3) to talk to my > cable modem (i can ping the cable modem) > > but even with entries in my /etc/hosts file ... > i cant ping or telnet to other nodes.!!! > > i think i need to turn on DNS !!! > > how do i do that? > > ===== > William F. Fiore Jr. ($bilfjr) <<<<< N.B. new address > 88 harris av > cranston, R.I. 02910 USA > 401-946-5703 USA EST (voice/vmail) > 1-877-789-1992 USA (vmail/fax - toll free) > dollarbilfjr@yahoo.com > www.geocities.com/dollarbilfjr/dollarbilfjr.html > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. > http://im.yahoo.com/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message