Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 07:39:06 -0600 From: "Duke Normandin" <dnormandin@freewwweb.com> To: "Zhihui Zhang" <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>, "Dan O'Connor" <dan@mostgraveconcern.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Can not ping myself Message-ID: <004801bfef2b$544b0ca0$7fb10a40@odie>
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:On Saturday, July 15, 2000 9:55 PM Dan O'Connor <dan@mostgraveconcern.com> wrote >>I have two machines box1 and box2 connected via a parallel cable. I can >>ping from one machine to the other: >> >>box1# ping box2 or box2# ping box1 >> >>But I can not ping myself: >> >>box1# ping box1 or box2# ping box2 >> >>It says "no route". These two machines do not connect to the outside >>network. They run Freebsd 4.0-release. The /etc/hosts contains the >>following: >> >>192.168.1.0 box1 box1.home.org >>192.168.1.1 box2 box2.home.org > >1) If you're not the owner of 'home.org', don't use it (yes, it is a real >domain name). Use box1.home or something similar. > >2) Don't use the x.x.x.0 address, since x.x.x.0 represents the whole >network. > >3) Make sure you have your loopback address in /etc/hosts: > > 127.0.0.1 localhost.home localhost > >--Dan I'm interested in learning more about networking 2 machines with a parallel cable, including the limitations in doing so, if any. Would either of you gentleman be in a position to point me to an appropriate URL, please? I'm assuming that that a parallel cable is used in lieue of NICs and patch cable --- for a 2 machine network. Tia..... -duke To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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