Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 08:05:01 +0000 From: Pascal S Clermont <pascal@clermont.cc> To: Edward Lay <ehl@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to reach hosts outside my subnet after initial installation Message-ID: <48537BAD.6020308@clermont.cc> In-Reply-To: <200806140735.m5E7Zr2t019325@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu> References: <200806140735.m5E7Zr2t019325@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu>
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Edward Lay wrote: >> From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> >> > > >> Check and/or create /etc/nsswitch.conf so you are looking in files and >> dns for hosts. >> > > >> Check or create /etc/resolv.conf make sure your upsteam DNS servers >> are listed in this file along with any local caching DNS servers. >> > > Thanks for the suggestion. Those files already exist with valid > entries though. In any event, it doesn't seem like a hostname problem > as I can nslookup arbitrary hosts and then try and then ping the IP > numbers directly which fails for hosts beyond the local subnet. > > It seems more like a router/gateway network configuration type of > problem. I've just discovered that when I ping the gateway's IP > address, I get no answer. Now I know the gateway is functioning as > every other host on the network can reach the rest of the internet and > in fact, I've just successfully ping'd the gateway from the machine > where I'm writing this message. So I'm wondering what could cause this > or at least some way of approaching the problem. > > thanks > > ed > > There are 3 things that need to be configured in order to have a network connection on an initial start, the IP, Gateway and Route. I am ruling out the fact that it might be the firewall, cause you state that this on an an initial install and I would try another ether cable if after this setup it still doesn't work. make sure both these entry are in your rc.conf : ifconfig_vr0="inet 192.168.0.100 netmask 255.255.255.0" defaultrouter="192.168.0.1" You will need to replace "vr0" by your network card, and replace all IPs for your own. if you modify the settings in the rc.conf you can execute /etc/netstart in order for the settings to take effect. Pascal S. Clermont
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