From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 6 12:24:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cougar.i3s.net (smtp.astound.net [24.219.32.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F87F37B503 for ; Fri, 6 Oct 2000 12:24:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from oak (unverified [24.219.40.54]) by cougar.i3s.net (Rockliffe SMTPRA 3.4.7) with SMTP id ; Fri, 6 Oct 2000 14:24:54 -0500 Reply-To: From: "Scott Hansen" To: "Mike Meyer" Cc: Subject: RE: Perplexing networking problems accessing select machines on local network Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 14:26:20 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <14803.61936.286758.259907@guru.mired.org> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG They are all on the same network. They are all actually the same machine - multiple IP's bound to the same NIC on that machine. The following is the output of ping from the FreeBSD box to the server at 24.219.44.10: bash-2.04# ping 24.219.44.10 PING 24.219.44.10 (24.219.44.10): 56 data bytes ^C --- 24.219.44.10 ping statistics --- 4 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss Here is the output of ifconfig: bash-2.04# ifconfig ed0 ed0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet 24.219.44.5 netmask 0xffffffe0 broadcast 24.219.44.31 inet6 fe80::280:29ff:fe61:c365%ed0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 ether 00:80:29:61:c3:65 Ideas?? -Scott -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Mike Meyer Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 8:36 PM To: Scott Hansen Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Perplexing networking problems accessing select machines on local network Scott Hansen writes: > I previously submitted this question when I had v3.4 installed. I've since > formatted my harddrive and installed FreeBSD v4.1. > > The problem did NOT go away. A fresh install and the same problem. I'd > appreciate any help anyone could provide: > > I setup my box with it's IP address (24.219.44.5), subnet mask > (255.255.255.224), gateway (24.219.44.1), etc. The interface is up and > running. I'm able to connect to any IP address on the Internet FROM this > FreeBSD machine without a problem. I'm also able to telnet/ping/etc IN to > this new FreeBSD box from any host on the Internet without a problem. This > is all with one exception - I am unable to get to or from the FreeBSD box > from a small range of addresses (24.219.44.6 - 24.219.44.11 for sure, maybe > more). I can get to it fine from 24.219.44.1 and from 24.219.44.20. > > Summary: > Machine IP: 24.219.44.5 > Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.224 > Default Gateway: 24.219.44.1 (which I can ping without problem) > Other IP's I can't reach: 24.219.44.3, 24.219.44.9, 24.219.44.10, etc. > However, I can ping the DNS server: 24.219.44.20 It sound like a netmask problem. Which of the problem IPs are on the local network, and which aren't? Likewise, do all/any of them display the same problem? What are the error messages from ping, and how about the ifconfig output for the interface?