From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 1 15:50:47 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 5723337B401 for ; Thu, 1 May 2003 15:50:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1a-215.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.170.215]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C3AD43F3F for ; Thu, 1 May 2003 15:50:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) h41Moj0n005994; Thu, 1 May 2003 18:50:45 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3EB1A4C5.4080408@potentialtech.com> Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 18:50:45 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030429 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gcn53@vfemail.net 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> <1051828244.3eb1a01425b5a@www.vfemail.net> In-Reply-To: <1051828244.3eb1a01425b5a@www.vfemail.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 22:50:47 -0000 Hmmm ... I'm getting the impression you don't have root access on this machine? gcn53@vfemail.net wrote: > 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. So your provider set up the machine, correct? I would think it would then be the hosting provider's responsibility to fix the network config if it's not working, but I don't know the exact relationship you've worked out with them, so I could be wrong. I looked back and found the original email you sent. The hard part is that we don't know the details of the "virtual server" setup. >>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. And you entered it? They should have provided a netmask as well as a default router/gateway and DNS servers. You need all that information to make any sort of server work. >>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" Well, you definately have no network config here. >>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 You'll need to do this as root. Do you have root access? -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com