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Date:      Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:43:48 -0600
From:      Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com>
To:        =?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Alvaro_J=2E_Gurdi=E1n=22?= <AJGurdian@lanoticia.com>, FreeBSD-Questions Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: cannot ping anything
Message-ID:  <6.0.0.22.2.20060120133722.025b9850@mail.computinginnovations.com>
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See if you can ping your own interface.  You should be able to ping it on=20
both the loop back 127.0.0.1 and the 192.168.1.128 address.

If you can ping those and still not the router at 192.168.1.1 check for=20
other defaultrouter statements.  If you have only one of these statements,=
=20
I would bring down the interface and bring it up manually until you find=20
the correct settings.  For instance you may need to set the line speed 1t=20
10 MBs, or 100 MBs or 1000 Mbs, or set the duplex setting.  Oh and check=20
the LED's on your ethernet interface and router and hub/switches to be sure=
=20
you didn't knock a cable loose.

         -Derek


At 12:50 PM 1/20/2006, Alvaro J. Gurdi=E1n wrote:
>thanks, but the defaultrouter line was already present in my /etc/rc.conf.
>
>On Jan 20, 2006, at 1:32 PM, Derek Ragona wrote:
>
>>Check your /etc/rc.conf for this line:
>>defaultrouter=3D"192.168.1.1"
>>
>>add it and reboot if it is missing
>>
>>         -Derek
>>
>>
>>At 12:26 PM 1/20/2006, Alvaro J. Gurdi=E1n wrote:
>>>Yesterday I placed an HD with Freebsd 5.3 release in a Dell Dimension=20
>>>L800CXE.  It booted properly. ( since it's running a generic kernel with=
=20
>>>only a name change)
>>>
>>>However I could not ping anything inside or outside the LAN.
>>>Ex:
>>>ping google.com
>>>ping: cannot resolve google.com: Hostname lookup failure
>>>
>>>ping 192.168.1.1
>>>ping: sendto: No route to host
>>>
>>>I tried several addresses inside the LAN, 127.0.0.1, localhost,=20
>>>192.168.1.128, and all gave the same result.
>>>
>>>I was previously using this HD in another machine to test IPF, with NAT=
=20
>>>also, and it worked peerfectly there.
>>>
>>>
>>>So just to be safe I erased the contents of /etc/rc.conf, and then used=
=20
>>>sysinstall to bring up my NIC.  I  chose NO for IPv6, and YES for DHCP.
>>>
>>>That seemed to work correctly, just to be sure I ran ifconfig:
>>>dc0: flags=3D108843<UP,BROACAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTIPLY> MTU 1500
>>>         options=3D8<VLAN_MTU>
>>>         inet 192.168.1.128 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
>>>         ether 00:80:ad:81:1a:9f
>>>         media: Ethernat autoselect (100baseTX)
>>>         status: active
>>>plip0: flags=3D108810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>>>lo0: flags=3D8049<UP,LOOPBACK,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>>>         inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
>>>
>>>Still, things are looking good; so, I go to another box, log into my=20
>>>router(192.168.1.1), and I can see the MAC address of the BSD box on my=
 router.
>>>
>>>
>>>However, I still get the same results when I ping as I did above.
>>>
>>>Then I checked the routing tables:
>>>
>>>netstat -r
>>>Routing Tables
>>>
>>>Internet:
>>>Destination     Gateway                 Flags   Refs    Use     Netif=20
>>>Expire
>>>default         192.168.1.1             UGS             0       6
>>>   dc0
>>>localhost               localhost                       UH
>>>   1      37      lo0
>>>192.168.1               link#1                  UC              0
>>>   0      dc0
>>>192.168.1.1     00:0c:41:bd:49:7d       UHLW    1       0       dc0
>>>   695
>>>192.168.1.128   localhost                       UGHS    0       0
>>>   lo0
>>>
>>>The output of netstat and ifconfig aboe are from today.  I began having=
=20
>>>this problem yesterday, and left the box on over night.
>>>Yesterday's output was different in that the BSD box had a different IP=
=20
>>>address, 192.168.1.122.  That is fine I understand that the box is=20
>>>communicating with the router and negotiating leases when they=20
>>>expire.  However, why has the gateway to 192.168.1.1 changed from link#1=
=20
>>>to the MAC address of my router.  I am certain that if  I restart the=20
>>>computer that same gateway will revert to link#1.
>>>
>>>The my questions are:
>>>How do I get the system to see others in the network, and vice-versa?
>>>What should the gateway for 192.168.1.1 be?(which also happens to be my=
=20
>>>routers address)
>>>
>>>
>>>I am hoping it is something simple.  I could just as have easily=20
>>>reinstalled the system and started from scratch, but I wanted to know=20
>>>how to solve this problem.
>>>
>>>Other info that might help:
>>>less /etc/rc.conf
>>>ifconfig_dco=3D"DHCP"
>>>hostname=3D"fw.company.com"
>>>defaultrouter=3D"192.168.1.1"
>>>
>>>less /etc/resolv.conf
>>>search carolina.rr.com
>>>nameserver 24.25.5.60
>>>naemserver 24.25.5.61
>>>
>>>less /etc/hosts
>>>::1                     localhost.company.com   localhost
>>>127.0.0.1               localhost.company.com   localhost
>>>
>>>Thanks in advance
>>>
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