From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 9 8:47:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.dcnv.com (mail.dcnv.com [216.33.117.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEC7337BA39 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 08:47:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from aedmonds@digitalconvergence.com) Received: from digitalconvergence.com (sledge [207.158.100.67]) by mail.dcnv.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA48475; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 10:45:11 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from aedmonds@digitalconvergence.com) Message-ID: <39917D0A.F5C9BBB8@digitalconvergence.com> Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 10:47:22 -0500 From: Alan Edmonds X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Vinesh Christopher Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wrong Broadcast Address - Ping by name fails References: <4A78850EF802D211BB3900805FFE55550BA87A@atl_es1.megatrends.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ditto here. The wrong bcast addr is preventing ntpd receiving broadcast ntp packets. It only happens with DHCP client machines. The static IP 4.1-RELEASE machine works fine. Vinesh Christopher wrote: > > I just installed 4.1- Release from the CD- ISO Image. The network was > configured for DHCP and my network card (fxp0) is assigned an IP > But when I looked into the broadcast address, I found that instead of > setting all 1's for the host part, it iwas all 0's .(i.e) it is 155.229.80.0 > instead of 155.229.83.255 (Subnet was 255.255.252.0) > > I have configured samba-2.0.7. When I ping my BSD machine BY IP > ADDRESS from other machines it works. But ping BY HOSTNAME fails. > So I manually changed the broadcast address to the correct one and it > worked. > > Any suggestions why this happens in 4.1-RELEASE?. > Other machines running 4.0-STABLE are working fine. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Alan Edmonds Director of International Technology DigitalConvergence.:Com aedmonds@digitalconvergence.com Phone: +1-214-292-6040 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message