Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 21:19:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Murad <murad@magi.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Networking Problems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980502211732.21194U-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <E0yVI8m-0001w3-00@mail1.toronto.istar.net>
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On Fri, 1 May 1998, Murad wrote: > > > I'm having networking problems and I'm stumped. I think it's probably > something straightforward that I'm missing but I'm out of ideas. > > I have a laptop that I can connect on one network without a problem so I > think the ethernet card is setup okay. > > I can't seem to get it working on the other network (which is of course the > one I really want :) I hope someone can help me out. > > I'm using FreeBSD 2.2.5 with PAO installed. ep0 driver for a 3COM589D > > On both networks everything seems to boot okay but on the 172 I always get > 'host is down' when I try to ping from my box. I also can't ping my box > from others on the 172. bad routing, definitely. > defaultrouter="yyy.zz.157.61" # Set to default gateway (or NO). Is this correct for the net you're on? > pccard_ether="ed0 ep0 fe0 sn0" # Pccard ethernet interfaces (or NO). > ifconfig_common="inet yyy.zz.157.137 netmask 255.255.255.0" This is correct, right? > For the network that DOES NOT work: > hostname="myname.my.domain" # Set this! You should really set this. > defaultrouter="172.18.0.36" # Set to default gateway (or NO). > gateway_enable="YES" # Set to YES if this host will be a gateway. This doesn't need to be set. > pccard_ether="ed0 ep0 fe0 sn0" # Pccard ethernet interfaces (or NO). > ifconfig_common="inet 172.18.0.202 netmask 255.255.0.0" This is correct? You're rebooting when you flip rc.conf? > I can access the 172 with Win95 but not FreeBSD. I tried playing with the > "gateway-enable" option because I believe the 172 network doesn't have a > 'proper gateway'. No, gateway routes packets between interfaces. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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