From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 6 18:55:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from user1.channel1.com (user1.channel1.com [199.1.13.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6047614F89 for ; Sun, 6 Jun 1999 18:54:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pontz@channel1.com) Received: from user1.channel1.com (IDENT:pontz@user1.channel1.com [199.1.13.9]) by user1.channel1.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA07335; Sun, 6 Jun 1999 21:54:12 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 21:54:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Pontz To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Jason Evans , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Connecting to a network In-Reply-To: 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 Hello, Just wanted to let you all know that I solved the problem. I had this line in rc.conf ifconfig_lo0_alias0="inet 127.255.255.255 netmask 0xffffffff" I changed it to ifconfig_lo0_alias1="same as above" I had to put a 1 after alias instead of the 0 Thanks everyone who helped Brian Pontz Windows 95 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Brian Pontz wrote: > > > Thanks... I did already have that set to 10.0.0.1 since that is the router > > when I use dialup. The one thing I see different when I do ifconfig -a on > > both mahines is that the broadcast for eth0 on the linux box is 10.0.0.0 > > and on the freeBSD box (ed1) it is 10.0.0.255 . Icant figure out how to > > make it 10.0.0.0 > > It shouldn't be .0, it should be .255 I don't know what Linux > is smoking, .0 is REALLY REALLY old way of doing the broadcast. :) > > Since everything _looks_ ok, i would suggest swapping the ethernet > calbe with one of the cables being used by 95 or Linux, you may > have a simple cabling problem. > > -Alfred > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message