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From: Dave Hummel <johanndirty@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: help! /23 net (mask 255.255.254.0) beating me up!
To: Janko van Roosmalen <janko@compuserve.com>
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Unfortunately this time around I am trying to do an
ftp install on a clean machine, so I don't have any of
these files yet. I moved the other machine with which
I was having problems to a sane network, changed the
ip and netmask in rc.conf, and it works fine. I can
tell you from memory that ifconfig showed sane values.
From what everyone tells me all I should have to do is
change the ip and netmask, and this makes sense. My
real question is 'is there anything special about
FreeBSD on this type of network?'. If other people are
using this type of setup happily, then I'll keep
looking at my network, box, and configs. 


--- Janko van Roosmalen <janko@compuserve.com> wrote:
> Posting your "/etc/rc.conf", "/etc/resolv.conf",
> "/etc/host.conf", the
> output of "ifconfig-a" and "netstat -rn" would help.
> 
> ===Janko van Roosmalen - Vught - Netherlands===
> 
> On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Dave Hummel wrote:
> >  
> > Hi,
> > 
> > First of all, kudos to the FreeBSD team for a job
> well
> > done. I've been BSD'ing for 4 years now, mostly in
> a
> > commercial/production setting and I have no
> > complaints.
> > 
> > Please, somebody flame me and say - "hey stupid,
> all
> > you have to do is...  ...what are you thinking?". 
> > 
> > s/\.\.\./really_good_advice/g
> > 
> > I know this has got to be something silly, but I
> can't
> > find anything in the docs or archives. I'm setting
> up
> > a box (I actually tried two, a 4.1-stable and a
> > 4.1.1-Release) on a network using a netmask of
> > 255.255.254.0. I know I have the gateway and
> netmask
> > set up correctly - at least what would be correct
> for
> > a Solaris box. Solaris and Win2000 worked without
> a
> > hitch with no special configuration. I have tried
> two
> > different boxes and two network cards (intel ether
> > express and generic 3com) with the same results: I
> > cannot ping out or in to the box or otherwise get
> any
> > indication that the card is being recognized on
> the
> > network at all (although the boxes work fine on
> any
> > other network I've had them on). The router is
> getting
> > traffic to the port, and I have tried several
> network
> > cables, switches and hubs.
> > 
> > Networking is definitely not my specialty - I had
> to
> > do some homework to even figure out how this
> netmask
> > gives the network 511 addresses. Is there
> something
> > special about this type of setup that is making my
> > life miserable?
> > 
> > Any help would be _greatly_ appreciated. 
> 


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