Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 19:30:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Dave Hummel <johanndirty@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: help! /23 net (mask 255.255.254.0) beating me up! Message-ID: <20001013023047.84593.qmail@web9803.mail.yahoo.com>
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Hi, First of all, kudos to the FreeBSD team for a job well done. I've been BSD'ing for 4 years now, mostly in a commercial/production setting and I have no complaints. Please, somebody flame me and say - "hey stupid, all you have to do is... ...what are you thinking?". s/\.\.\./really_good_advice/g I know this has got to be something silly, but I can't find anything in the docs or archives. I'm setting up a box (I actually tried two, a 4.1-stable and a 4.1.1-Release) on a network using a netmask of 255.255.254.0. I know I have the gateway and netmask set up correctly - at least what would be correct for a Solaris box. Solaris and Win2000 worked without a hitch with no special configuration. I have tried two different boxes and two network cards (intel ether express and generic 3com) with the same results: I cannot ping out or in to the box or otherwise get any indication that the card is being recognized on the network at all (although the boxes work fine on any other network I've had them on). The router is getting traffic to the port, and I have tried several network cables, switches and hubs. Networking is definitely not my specialty - I had to do some homework to even figure out how this netmask gives the network 511 addresses. Is there something special about this type of setup that is making my life miserable? Any help would be _greatly_ appreciated. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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