Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 15:51:07 -0500 From: "Oliver, Michael W." <oliver.michael@gargantuan.com> To: 'Alex Teslik ' <teslik@yahoo.com>, "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org '" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: subnetting / ifconfig ip allocation problem Message-ID: <1DA741CA6767A144BAA4F10012536C27A9A4@LKLDDC01.GARGANTUAN.COM>
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Alex, For the quick answer.... http://michael.gargantuan.com/ipsubaddr.htm For the whole story, get Steven's TCP/IP Illustrated. HTH, Michael Oliver -----Original Message----- From: Alex Teslik To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: 1/9/2002 12:42 PM Subject: subnetting / ifconfig ip allocation problem Hello, I have two boxes - WindowsME and FreeBSD4.4R When I set the machines like: WindowsME ip xxx.xxx.xxx.91 subnet 255.255.255.0 FreeBSD ip xxx.xxx.xxx.92 subnet 255.255.255.0 I can access both machines remotely and each machine can ping themselves and each other. When I set the machines like: WindowsME ip xxx.xxx.xxx.91 subnet 255.255.255.252 FreeBSD ip xxx.xxx.xxx.92 subnet 255.255.255.252 I cannot ping each machine and FreeBSD gives me an error from ifconfig that it cannot allocate the ip address. The FreeBSD machine can't even ping itself (probably because it can't allocate the ip to begin with). localhost can always be pinged in both scenarios. This is a two machine closed network. This probably exposes some sort of basic misunderstanding on my part, but can anyone explain why this would happen and how I can fix it? Sorry in advance for no output, but I can't access the machines from where I am right now. Thanks, Alex __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ 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
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