From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 16 22:34:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (oe20.law12.hotmail.com [64.4.18.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4485E37B423 for ; Wed, 16 May 2001 22:34:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from default013subscriptions@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Wed, 16 May 2001 22:34:41 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [24.14.93.185] Reply-To: "default013 - subscriptions" From: "default013 - subscriptions" To: Subject: Networking Problems Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 00:34:56 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 17 May 2001 05:34:41.0049 (UTC) FILETIME=[1208A890:01C0DE93] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi yall, first I guess I should explain, I'm pretty good with FreeBSD but... don't hardly know anything about networking... I'm on an @home (cable modem) connection with 3 computers hooked up to a hub. All of the 3 computers have completely different I.P. addresses that don't even go through the same gateway. (all static) I was thinking I should buy a switch or something, because sometimes, for some reason, my connection between my computers slows down to over 50% packet loss. Sometimes rebooting all 3 of the machines can fix the problem, sometimes it doesn't.... I was thinking that it must be a problem of the gateways speaking to eachother, and that there must be a way to keep my computers on my LAN talking to eachother on the LAN instead of through @home... My main issue is getting my UNIX server talking to my workstation... I would be happy if I could just get that going... Is there some kind of route add that I need to do? And if so, how does that work and what does it do? ... or should I go out and buy a switch? Thanks, Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message