Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 09:14:31 -0800 (PDT) From: topaz5@hushmail.com To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Dumb question Message-ID: <200104281629.JAA05514@user8.hushmail.com>
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--Hushpart_boundary_yEbNuhMFPwYHKUlglyjgSlXMHIXvrciR Content-type: text/plain First, I'd like to apologize in advance for making a fool of myself. I know this is something I should be able to figure out myself, but I've tried to RTFM and didn't get very far.... I have a small FreeBSD server that I recently upgraded from 3.4 to 4.2. Due to hardware problems, this took about two weeks :). The server is behind a firewall, but it had been on a special IP address the firewall was set up to ignore. While the server was down for upgrading/fixing, a friend of mine set up an NT server in the same building to respond to the firewall-less IP address, and put up a simple web page saying the real server was down. The transition went smoothly. But when I finally got the FreeBSD server running and put it back on its old address, it wouldn't connect to the network! With a subnet mask of 255.255.0.0 (what we usually use in this building, long story), it could ping the router but not get outside the firewall; connections to hosts on the local network didn't work either. The really bizarre thing is that when I set up the machine to use our DHCP server, it got exactly the same network settings and worked perfectly - except, of course, that it couldn't use our reserved IP address to get outside the network. So there must be something different in the way NT /FreeBSD 3.4 and FreeBSD 4.2 handle network settings that makes the former work and the latter not. But I really can't think of what that might be. Can anyone give any insight into the situation? Thanks a lot, -- Dan P.S.: This is a network in a high school that is severely convoluted. I realize that's probably half the problem, but I can't do anything about it.... (sorry for the advertisement below) Free, encrypted, secure Web-based email at www.hushmail.com --Hushpart_boundary_yEbNuhMFPwYHKUlglyjgSlXMHIXvrciR-- IMPORTANT NOTICE: If you are not using HushMail, this message could have been read easily by the many people who have access to your open personal email messages. Get your FREE, totally secure email address at http://www.hushmail.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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