From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 12 14:00:40 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 6B61437B401 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:00:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-217.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.217]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75E5143FBF for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:00:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) h5CL0cOg002365; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 17:00:38 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3EE8E9F6.3050908@potentialtech.com> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 17:00:38 -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: warren maxwell References: <000801c33110$6c0af100$016f8798@warrenma> <3EE8CE4F.7030408@potentialtech.com> <000d01c33123$793d9040$016f8798@warrenma> In-Reply-To: <000d01c33123$793d9040$016f8798@warrenma> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help routing 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, 12 Jun 2003 21:00:40 -0000 [Please keep freebsd-questions in the CC] warren maxwell wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bill Moran" > >>warren maxwell wrote: >> >>>Im setting up a serial line connection and i am unable to ping because > > it says no host. How do i set up my base local address to be 192.168.2.1? > The commands i am running are as follows, > >>>slattach -h -l -n -s 19200 /dev/cuaa0 >>>ifconfig sl0 192.168.2.2 192.168.2.3 up >>> >>>Do i need to add a route command like this? >>>route add -net 192.168.2 192.168.2.0 255.255.255.0 >>> >>>Thanks for all the help in advance guys, much appreciated. >>>Bryan >> >>Check 'netstat -rn' and see if an appropriate route is in >>there, if not you'll probably have to add it manually each >>time you connect. It seems that some types of interfaces >>create a route automatically (ethernet, for example) while >>others don't. > > Well i added the route command like this, > route add -net 192.168.2 localhost 255.255.255.0, this allowed me to ping > the 192.168.2.2 side of things but the 192.168.2.3 gave me this error, ping: > sendto: Network dropped connection on reset > Any ideas? Thanks once again in advance, I am a newbie at this linux stuff, > but the one thing I love about is all the help from the community. Thanks :) > Bryan Please send the complete output of 'ifconfig' and 'netstat -rn'. I'm wondering if there is a config problem elsewhere that is causing problems with the routing. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com