From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 17 14:47:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA06035 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 14:47:50 -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 VAA05919 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 21:47:21 GMT (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA01711; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 14:47:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 14:47:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: chas cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install : unable to add static route but network up. In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980417110453.00eabfd0@peace.com.my> 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, 17 Apr 1998, chas wrote: > Installing 2.2.5, the installation procedure goes as normal > until I choose to install via FTP : it then hangs > indefinitely at "adding static route to xxx.xxx.xxx.x > (our default gateway)". > > (This is despite being able to ping this machine from other > servers on the network. Also the machine previously had > 2.2.1 installed and had no communications problems with this > very same card so I doubt it is the NIC, UTP or port.) > > This is not an insurmountable problem : I'll install > 2.2.1 from CDROM and then upgrade the source again. > I'm just curious if others have had this problem > and if there is a rational explanation for this ? I've had this happen too, but that was for a NIC that would ifconfig but wouldn't respond. I could attribute such things to nameserver lookup failures. 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