From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 2 21:20:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA26115 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 2 May 1998 21:20:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA26033 for ; Sat, 2 May 1998 21:19:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA21644; Sat, 2 May 1998 21:19:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 21:19:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Murad cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Networking Problems In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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