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Date:      Sat, 16 Oct 1999 16:56:44 -0400
From:      Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com>
To:        "'ATeslik@aol.com'" <ATeslik@aol.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: can't ping win95 machine
Message-ID:  <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105CFC@site2s1>

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It may help us if you can provied the output of a couple things.

ifconfig -a
ping <windows-ip>
ping <freebsd-ip> (from the windows machine).

-Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	ATeslik@aol.com [SMTP:ATeslik@aol.com]
> Sent:	Friday, October 15, 1999 6:41 PM
> To:	joe_pepin@ins.com
> Cc:	freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject:	can't ping win95 machine
> 
> >Do you have IPFW running?  If so, you are probably denying those packets.
> 
> I'm not running IPFW.
> 
> >Are all of your netmasks the same?  If not, that could be the problem.
> 
> Yes, everything is set for Class C (255.255.255.0)
> 
> >I assume these IPs have not been assigned to you.  It is better practice
> to
> >use reserved addys.  10.x.x.x is all yours, do with it what you will.
> 
> I was using 192.168.x.x, but in Complete FreeBSD it mentioned routing 
> problems with that addressing. I havn't set up any routing, but just for 
> "safety" I reset my network to 200.200.x.x. I hadn't heard of 10.x.x.x
> being 
> reserved, so I think I'll switch to that.
> 
> In the meantime, still no luck getting the BSd machine to ping the win95 
> machine, and vice versa. This is making me crazy. If I read anymore....
> 
> Alex Teslik
> <ateslik@aol.com>
> 
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>      I'm going a bit nuts. I have a 3 computer intranet in my room. 2 
> machines are >>win95 and 1 is FreeBSD 3.2. They are connected via 10BaseT
> UTP 
> at a Linksys >>hub. Heres my problem:
> >>
> >>I can't ping the windows machines at all, and the windows machines can't
> 
> ping the >>FreeBSD machine. The windows machines can ping each other. To
> make 
> things >>more complicated, when I run tcpdump I can see the attempts from
> the 
> windows >>machines on the BSD box with the proper ips. Heres the output
> from 
> tcpdump >>when I ping BSD:
> >>
> >>12:37:26.618523 200.200.1.2 > 200.200.1.3: icmp: echo request
> >>12:37:28.102603 200.200.1.2 > 200.200.1.3: icmp: echo request
> >>12:37:29.120196 200.200.1.2 > 200.200.1.3: icmp: echo request
> >>12:37:30.135294 200.200.1.2 > 200.200.1.3: icmp: echo request
> >>
> >>Why isn't the BSD box responding? The computers are seeing each other,
> but 
> not >>at the same time. Do I need to do routing even though they are
> directly 
> connected >>on the same hub?
> >>
> >>Thanks in advance!
> >>
> >>Alex Teslik
> >><ateslik@aol.com>
> >>Someday I'll kick this crappy address and service. Too far from phone 
> company for >>DSL. doh.


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