From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 13 9:27:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pop.hccnet.nl (pop.hccnet.nl [193.172.127.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89F2637B677 for ; Fri, 13 Oct 2000 09:27:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parmenides.utp.net by pop.hccnet.nl via uds56-123.dial.hccnet.nl [193.173.123.56] with ESMTP id SAA27612 (8.8.5/1.13); Fri, 13 Oct 2000 18:27:37 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (janko@localhost) by parmenides.utp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA00607; Fri, 13 Oct 2000 18:27:34 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from janko@compuserve.com) X-Authentication-Warning: parmenides.utp.net: janko owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 18:27:33 +0200 (CEST) From: Janko van Roosmalen X-Sender: janko@parmenides.utp.net To: Dave Hummel Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help! /23 net (mask 255.255.254.0) beating me up! In-Reply-To: <20001013023047.84593.qmail@web9803.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Posting your "/etc/rc.conf", "/etc/resolv.conf", "/etc/host.conf", the output of "ifconfig-a" and "netstat -rn" would help. ===Janko van Roosmalen - Vught - Netherlands=== On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Dave Hummel wrote: > > 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message