From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 18 16:31:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA00758 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 16:31:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from techpower.net (root@techpower.net [205.133.231.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA00724 for ; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 16:30:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hometeam@techpower.net) Received: from localhost (hometeam@localhost) by techpower.net (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA00748; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 19:05:56 GMT Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 19:05:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Jt To: Frank Griffith cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Pingless! In-Reply-To: <01BD243A.29FEA7E0@dal29-14.ppp.iadfw.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 1 are these daisy chain? 2 is the freebsd the gateway for all machinces? 3 you have terminators at the end of each run? some cards have built in terminators. hometeam@techpower.net --We cannot all be masters, nor all masters Cannot be truly follow'd-- -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: 2.6.2 owEBqwBU/4kAlQMFADRCxNWhsddKSTR+6QEBelED/jzeC3btZfqSdIfrNoCgwUJJ iNQ33UQoMyJ2ygkfl72xP5J79yml/F4P73GnNaDVbaMOmOG2NNAi5ElE73wRh54U 17kH+n5XnYeqekV8T2TG2Q6ex3UotXPyZ1vvrCrSxapOz6a4hh0GQeA55rcwLy2W ROHwxfvaVsrX5iVOkRoerBFiC21lc3NhZ2UudHh0AAAAAA== =jCvF -----END PGP MESSAGE----- On Sun, 18 Jan 1998, Frank Griffith wrote: > I just completed the networking section of your tutorial. I am running > FreeBSD 2.2.5 on a 486-66 computer with the following hardware: > > Generic Hayes Compatible Modem on COM2, IRQ3 > NE2000 Compatible NIC on IRQ10, I/O 300 > > I can ping localhost and ping curly, on the FreeBSD unit as the > tutorial describes. But I should mention here that this tutorial > describes making changes to /etc/sysconfig ... NOT! This was > my problem for the first few hours. I found out it was rc.conf > which needs to be changed in lieu of sysconf. You might want > to correct this in you tutorial. > > My FreeBSD box is connected via BNC cable to three other machines. > A Novell 4.1 server and two Windows 95 machines. I can login to the > Novell server with the Windows 95 machines and can ping them. But > I can't ping them from the FreeBSD machine, nor visa versa. > > I have been back through the tutorial, section 3.1 through section 5.1 > several times. I found a few typos, but all looks according to the tutorial. > Still I can't see the FreeBSD machines with the Windows95 machines. > Can anyone help? >