From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 9 22: 8:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mostgraveconcern.com (mostgraveconcern.com [216.82.145.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8041E37C4D1 for ; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 22:08:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@mostgraveconcern.com) Received: from danco (danco.mostgraveconcern.com [10.0.0.2]) by mostgraveconcern.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA09867; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 22:08:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@mostgraveconcern.com) Message-ID: <038d01bfea2c$d9a086e0$0200000a@danco> Reply-To: "Dan O'Connor" From: "Dan O'Connor" To: "Kent Stewart" Cc: Subject: Re: Accessing FreeBSD Gateway from Another FreeBSD Machine Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 22:08:13 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> Thanks for the quick response. I cleaned out a lot of >> deadwood from rc.conf on both machines, verified >> defaultrouter (set to external gateway IP address on >> the gateway machine and internal gateway IP address on >> the client), and added a second nameserver to >> resolv.conf for both machines. No dice. Any other >> suggestions? > >I do have all 5 of my machines in the hosts files on all systems. This >includes each version of Windows that I multi-boot and FreeBSD. Hmmm...this is such a fundamental operation for FreeBSD, we're probably all overlooking something really simple... Double check your IP addresses and netmasks, looking carefully for typos. Can you ping the Windows machines from your FreeBSD client? If not, maybe it's time to try a new cable, plugging into a different port on your hub, and maybe a new network adapter... --Dan -- Dan O'Connor On Matters of Most Grave Concern http://www.mostgraveconcern.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message