From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 27 5:15:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A7CE37BC59 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 05:15:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12ZXoa-000CDc-00; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 12:36:12 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.12 #7) id 12ZXoa-00055J-00; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 12:36:12 +0100 Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 12:36:12 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Jiawei Ye Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <20000327123612.Y86036@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <006901bf97db$3dcd4d00$040a0a0a@eurofront4> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <006901bf97db$3dcd4d00$040a0a0a@eurofront4> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jiawei Ye wrote: > I have a FreeBSD 4.0 box with a Dlink DFE500TX nic. I can ping localhost > and my own ip, but when pinging any other host in the same subnet, the > msg: > > sendto: the host is down > > appears. And if I kept pinging for quite a while, the message becomes: > > sendto: No more buffer space available. > > My other machines all run WinNT and are connected to the same 5 port > 10/100Mbps hub. All other machines can't find this BSD box either. > > Could anyone give me some suggestions? please show us the output of 'ifconfig -a' ('/sbin/ifconfig -a' if /sbin is not in your $PATH) and 'netstat -rn'. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message