From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 4 00:20:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA19341 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 4 Jul 1998 00:20:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from softweyr.com ([204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA19324; Sat, 4 Jul 1998 00:20:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from obie.softweyr.com (zaphod.softweyr.com [204.68.178.35]) by softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id BAA02577; Sat, 4 Jul 1998 01:20:28 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Date: Sat, 4 Jul 1998 01:20:28 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199807040720.BAA02577@softweyr.com> Subject: Re: connecting NT and FBSD via tcp/ip over ethernet From: Wes Peters To: ruth@muswell.demon.co.uk, smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: Wes Peters In-Reply-To: References: X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-Mailer: BeatWare Mail-It 1.6 (TrialWare) X-BeOS-Platform: Intel or clone Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id AAA19325 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG My hidden microphone recorded (Dag-Erling Coidan Sm?rgrav) (smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com) saying: % ruth moulton writes: % > Solaris and NT talk to each other using Internet protocols (e.g. % > telnet). % > % > Freebsd talks to niether - pings don't work in either direction. % > However both Solaris and NT see the ARP messages from Freebsd and % > put freebsds ethernet addresses in their tables. % % I hate to ask about such obvious things, but are you certain that the % netmask is set up properly on all three machines? If the netmask on % the FreeBSD box was wrong, you'd see precisely the symptoms you're % describing, since FreeBSD wouldn't know how to route packets. And NT 4.0 nearly always gets the netmask WRONG in the control panel. If you enter a class C address, it chooses the class B netmask of 255.255.0.0. Doh! -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message