From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Jan 2 16:27:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from smtp013.mail.yahoo.com (smtp013.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6B9D337B41A for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 16:27:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from 24129137hfc39.tampabay.rr.com (HELO 1337g) (24.129.137.39) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 3 Jan 2002 00:27:03 -0000 Message-ID: <003d01c193ed$607ad740$0100a8c0@1337g> From: "AlCapone" To: Subject: Re: adding freebsd box to home lan Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 19:27:06 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hey there, Just want to thank you guys for your help, I havve solved my problem by substituting my nic to another one (dlink dfe530tx+) which works just fine now. Thanks for any suggestions though, I have learnt few things :) Have a great 2002! cheers, AlCapone ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - What is difficult take time, what is impossible takes a little longer ----- Original Message ----- From: "zer0" To: "AlCapone" Cc: Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 11:12 AM Subject: Re: adding freebsd box to home lan > have you tried adding the route to the winXP gateway? > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/routing.html > > check out 'netstat -r' > > hope this helps. > > .0. > On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, AlCapone wrote: > > > Okie, I have just installed freebsd on one of my boxes > > and I would like to add it to my home lan. I have read > > handbook part about networking and it seems that my > > configuration is fine. > > > > > > /etc/rc.conf (part with networking) > > defaultrouter="192.168.0.1" #my winxp gateway box > > hostname="gangster.chicago30s.com" #complitely fake, I > > do not have a domain > > ifconfig_ep0="inet 192.168.0.3 netmask 255.255.255.0" > > > > > > ifcoinfig -m ep0 (ep0 my network, 3com 3c509) > > ep0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 > > inet 192.168.0.3 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast > > 192.168.0.255 > > inet6 fe80::220:afff:fe58:e700%ep0 prefixlen 64 > > scopeid 0x1 > > ether 00:20:af:58:a7:00 > > media: Ethernet 10baseT/UTP > > > > supported media: > > media 10baseT/UTP > > media 10base5/AUI > > > > > > OK. I am using box with winxp on it as a gateway, > > another box with win98 is in the lan and works fine - > > can use internet, pings, all nice. My freebsd 4.4 box > > pings itself as 192.168.0.3, but does not ping gateway > > (192.168.0.1) and another lan box (192.168.0.2), those > > 2 win boxes do not ping bsd either. > > NIC is fine, just checked by plugging into another pc, > > physical connection is fine too - my hub's light is > > led showing that. > > > > Bottom line - I wan to add my freebsd box to home lan > > (2 more win boxes) and then use my winxp box as a > > gateway for freebsd's internet. > > > > As mail-list-name implies, I am new to both freebsd > > and unix, so don't blame me if I missed something > > important :) > > > > cheers, > > AlCapone > > ----------------------------------------------- > > What is difficult takes time, what is impossible takes > > a little longer. > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Send your FREE holiday greetings online! > > http://greetings.yahoo.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message