From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 20 18:27:04 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D34316A41F for ; Fri, 20 Jan 2006 18:27:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from AJGurdian@lanoticia.com) Received: from xbox00.csee.siteprotect.com (xbox00.csee.siteprotect.com [64.41.126.117]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D426C43D45 for ; Fri, 20 Jan 2006 18:27:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from AJGurdian@lanoticia.com) Received: from [192.168.1.117] (rrcs-24-123-186-213.se.biz.rr.com [24.123.186.213]) by xbox00.csee.siteprotect.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09691D807A for ; Fri, 20 Jan 2006 12:27:02 -0600 (CST) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v623) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed To: FreeBSD-Questions Questions From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Alvaro_J._Gurdi=E1n?= Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:26:47 -0500 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.623) Subject: cannot ping anything X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 18:27:04 -0000 Yesterday I placed an HD with Freebsd 5.3 release in a Dell Dimension L800CXE. It booted properly. ( since it's running a generic kernel with only a name change) However I could not ping anything inside or outside the LAN. Ex: ping google.com ping: cannot resolve google.com: Hostname lookup failure ping 192.168.1.1 ping: sendto: No route to host I tried several addresses inside the LAN, 127.0.0.1, localhost, 192.168.1.128, and all gave the same result. I was previously using this HD in another machine to test IPF, with NAT also, and it worked peerfectly there. So just to be safe I erased the contents of /etc/rc.conf, and then used sysinstall to bring up my NIC. I chose NO for IPv6, and YES for DHCP. That seemed to work correctly, just to be sure I ran ifconfig: dc0: flags=108843 MTU 1500 options=8 inet 192.168.1.128 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 ether 00:80:ad:81:1a:9f media: Ethernat autoselect (100baseTX) status: active plip0: flags=108810 mtu 1500 lo0: flags=8049 mtu 1500 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 Still, things are looking good; so, I go to another box, log into my router(192.168.1.1), and I can see the MAC address of the BSD box on my router. However, I still get the same results when I ping as I did above. Then I checked the routing tables: netstat -r Routing Tables Internet: Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Netif Expire default 192.168.1.1 UGS 0 6 dc0 localhost localhost UH 1 37 lo0 192.168.1 link#1 UC 0 0 dc0 192.168.1.1 00:0c:41:bd:49:7d UHLW 1 0 dc0 695 192.168.1.128 localhost UGHS 0 0 lo0 The output of netstat and ifconfig aboe are from today. I began having this problem yesterday, and left the box on over night. Yesterday's output was different in that the BSD box had a different IP address, 192.168.1.122. That is fine I understand that the box is communicating with the router and negotiating leases when they expire. However, why has the gateway to 192.168.1.1 changed from link#1 to the MAC address of my router. I am certain that if I restart the computer that same gateway will revert to link#1. The my questions are: How do I get the system to see others in the network, and vice-versa? What should the gateway for 192.168.1.1 be?(which also happens to be my routers address) I am hoping it is something simple. I could just as have easily reinstalled the system and started from scratch, but I wanted to know how to solve this problem. Other info that might help: less /etc/rc.conf ifconfig_dco="DHCP" hostname="fw.company.com" defaultrouter="192.168.1.1" less /etc/resolv.conf search carolina.rr.com nameserver 24.25.5.60 naemserver 24.25.5.61 less /etc/hosts ::1 localhost.company.com localhost 127.0.0.1 localhost.company.com localhost Thanks in advance