Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 20:53:23 +0100 From: "colin" <colin@j0o.com> To: <freebsd-i386@freebsd.org> Subject: freebsd 5.0, a switch, and its utter refusal to connect to the internet. help! Message-ID: <CMEPLHCLNHKJPNAMCFJNOEAPCBAA.colin@j0o.com>
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Hi all this is my first post to this mailing list, so please forgive me if this has been covered but I am in desperate need of help. For the past month or so I've been connecting my freebsd 5.0 computer to the internet via ICS on my windows 2000 computer. This all worked very smoothly, albeit a pain in the neck. This morning I bought a cheap ethernet switch, which I thought would make things a sight more easy. I plugged it in and connected up all my cables. My w2k box connected immediately, with no problem. My bsd however, did not. On the advice of my friend, I edited the rc.conf file and made some changes. This is now what it looks like:- hostname="colin" network_interfaces="rl0 lo0" ifconfig_rl0="inet 192.168.100.2 netmask 255.255.255.0" ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0" defaultrouter="82.40.64.1" gateway_enable="YES" inetd_enable="YES" kern_securelevel_enable="NO" linux_enable="YES" sendmail_enable="NO" sshd_enable="YES" 82.40.64.1 is my default gateway as defined in w2k ipconfig /all. I had previously tried 192.168.100.1 as it's the internal IP of my modem. That didn't work either. This is a readout of ifconfig:- rl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 192.168.100.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.100.255 inet6 fe80::2e0::4cff::feec::f81a%rl0 pref ixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 ether 00:e0:4c:ec:f8:1a media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) status: active lp0: flags=8810<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 My switch shows that the box is connected at the proper speed, is receiving and sending packets. However when I try to do anything on it that relates to the outside world, it fails. Pings say "no route to host" or "failed hostname lookup" so I edited the resolv.conf and put in my ISP's nameservers, and STILL got the same thing! The LAN card is fine, the cables are fine and of the correct type, and the switch itself is in perfect working order. I have been struggling with this for the past 14 hours. Everything my friend and I have tried has failed without exeption. I am truly sorry for the length of this, but I tried to include as much info as I can so as to give a clear description of my problem. If anyone can help me out with this, I would be very grateful. Thanks Colin
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