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From: "Jay E. Erickson" <erickson@server.gf-net.af.mil>
To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu
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Subject: Re: TCP/IP config help?
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On Mon, 26 Aug 1996, Doug White wrote:

> On Mon, 26 Aug 1996, Jay E. Erickson wrote:
> 
> > I received my FreeBSD 2.1.5 CD set and had little problem loading it.
> > But I can't seem to get it to talk to the network. 
> 
> Can you elaborate on this?  What happens?  What errors do you get?

I don't get any errors. I just can't make any connections to or from
 the box.
I pointed a netcat probe at it and all the TCP connections time out
but the UDP connections opened up.
 
> > The box was running Linux so I don't think it's a hardware problem.
> > I can't make any kind of TCP connections with the box, but when I 
> > do a >netstat -r it manages to lookup the names of the router and my 
> > other Linux box. 
> 
> Hm.....
> 
Does anyone know what the /24 means on the first link line ?
 
> > >netstat -nr
> > Routing tables
> > 
> > Internet:
> > Destination        Gateway            Flags     Refs     Use     Netif Expire
> > default            132.10.1.1         UGSc        0        0       ep0
> > 127.0.0.1          127.0.0.1          UH          0        4       lo0
> > 132.10.1/24        link#2             UC          0        0 
> > 132.10.1.1         link#2             UHLW        1        0 
> > 132.10.1.16        0:20:af:dc:1f:7    UHLW        1       10       lo0
> > 132.10.1.17        0:20:af:dc:34:d5   UHLW        0       26       ep0    941
> 
> Looks perfectly good here.
> 
 
> > routerflags=-q
> 
> Try setting this to
> 
> routerflags=NO
> 
> Routed has been known to cause odd problems.
> 
should I run gated??


Jay Erickson
erickson@server.gf-net.af.mil