From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 16 13:53:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.clientlogic.com (ns.clientlogic.com [207.51.66.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CA65154F4 for ; Sat, 16 Oct 1999 13:53:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ChrisMic@clientlogic.com) Received: by site0s1 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id <40N6DYN5>; Sat, 16 Oct 1999 16:53:38 -0400 Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105CFC@site2s1> From: Christopher Michaels To: "'ATeslik@aol.com'" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: can't ping win95 machine Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 16:56:44 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It may help us if you can provied the output of a couple things. ifconfig -a ping ping (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 > > > >>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 > >> > >>Someday I'll kick this crappy address and service. Too far from phone > company for >>DSL. doh. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message