From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 16 6:37:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mrs-1.smartworld.net (mrs-1-fix.smartworld.net [216.70.64.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCC0037BD5B for ; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 06:37:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dnormandin@freewwweb.com) Received: from odie (1Cust127.tnt3.calgary.ab.da.uu.net [64.10.177.127]) by mrs-1.smartworld.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id JAA51721; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 09:37:12 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <004801bfef2b$544b0ca0$7fb10a40@odie> From: "Duke Normandin" To: "Zhihui Zhang" , "Dan O'Connor" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org'" Subject: Re: Can not ping myself Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 07:39:06 -0600 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 4.72.3612.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3612.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :On Saturday, July 15, 2000 9:55 PM Dan O'Connor 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