Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 15:43:48 -0400 From: "JJB" <Barbish3@adelphia.net> To: "Peter Risdon" <peter@circlesquared.com> Cc: RazorOnFreeBSD <yann.luppo@attglobal.net> Subject: RE: Internet 2 Message-ID: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGKEHLFLAA.Barbish3@adelphia.net> In-Reply-To: <4075A5D2.7070309@circlesquared.com>
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Well I don't know where you get your info from, but all the members of my local FBSD club who use AT&T DSL have to use pppoe and dhclient to connect their FBSD boxes to get working connection. ATT assigns static ip address to DSL dummy modem and MS/XP does it's own internal thing to get ppp connection. All the symptoms stated by Razor seem to indicate your assumption is wrong by miles. He can not reach public internet because he has no connection. Adding hard coded ifconfig statements to rc.conf will not change that fact or how his DSL modem is working. And besides nobody picked up on his hostname= is wrong also, has to be FQDN. Razor, first thing you do on new virgin install is to ping to public internet site like Freebsd.org to verify you have internet connection before you start adding firewall or ports. Your second mistake was to install 5.x which is intended for users who can debug kernel code. You are in way over your head. All the 5.x releases are full of development bugs and you are experienced enough to debug them. If I was you I would blow away the FBSD system you have installed and re-stall using the 4.9 stable production version. Why fight the development bugs in 5.x? -----Original Message----- From: Peter Risdon [mailto:peter@circlesquared.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 3:20 PM To: Barbish3@adelphia.net Cc: RazorOnFreeBSD; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Internet 2 JJB wrote: >You state. >"I have DSL and my ISP is AT&T, I have a static IP which means I >don't need to run PPP to connect." > >That is not true for 4.9 and I have not read anything which changes >that for 5.x. > > This doesn't have anything to do with the version of FreeBSD he is running. I assume from the fact that he connects with an ethernet cable that he is using a dsl modem/router which negotiates the connection and if necessary will be running ppp. In that case, there is no need for him to run ppp. > >Hi everyone, > >I bring an old post again because I have now more information to >give this. > >My post was this one : > >------------------------------------------------------------------- - >------------------------------------------------------------ >------------------------------------------------------------------- - >------------------------------------------------------------ > >I just setup a freebsd box with the 5.1 release to be a >gateway/firewall. >The installation was smooth and to setup the gateway/firewall with >nat a lot of sources are available on Internet. >Here is my problem, I can't connect to Internet from the Freebsd >box. >I have DSL and my ISP is AT&T, I have a static IP wich means I don't >need to run PPP to connect. > > No, that means you don't have to run dhcp client. >FreeBSD Internet NIC is : 12.103.21.x > >When I type ifconfig my NIC looks fine, up and running : > >rl0 : 12.103.21.x > >For information the freebsd box contains 2 NIC's one for Internet >the other for the LAN (192.168.1.1) > >If I ping myself no problem everything's fine, but I can't ping a >web address. I don't know if it is possible under unix but I use to >"ping www.yahoo.com" for example to know if it's well connected. But >the best proof is when I try to install samba my freebsd gives a >time out reaching the samba server on the web.... > > Yes, ping is possible under unix. Try pinging a known numeric ip address first. If that doesn't work, you have a routing/connectivity problem. If it does, and you can't then ping a hostname like www.yahoo.com, you'd want to check your nameservers listed in /etc/resolv.conf To start with, assuming that 12.103.21.1 is your dsl router (and it needs to be for your configuration to have any chance of working), can you ping that? Next, can you ping, say, 12.127.16.83? >I also rebuilt the kernel up to those websites wich was fine, and I >created a natd.conf file. > > I don't know what this means. > >Here is my "netstat -r" output : > >Dest Gateway Flags >Refs >Use Netif > >Razor 12.103.21.1 UGSc 2 >105 rl0 >12.103.21/24 link#1 UC >1 >0 rl0 >12.103.21.1 link#1 UHLW 3 >2 rl0 >localhost localhost UH >0 >0 lo0 >192.168.1 link#2 UC >1 >0 dc0 >kitty.my.domain 00:06:5b:b4:41:1c UHLW 0 >0 >dc0 > > There's no default route. You can try setting one explicitly on the command line but you really want a solution that will survive reboots. If you've been mucking about with ifconfig type statements, try a reboot to clear the air, then the ping tests (numeric ip of router - numeric ip of nameserver - hostname). I would also recommend you set a proper hostname in /etc/rc.conf - preferably a real one... PWR.
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