From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 31 08:36:18 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id IAA26113 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 31 Mar 1995 08:36:18 -0800 Received: from estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.42.147]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA26107 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 1995 08:36:17 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id IAA03200; Fri, 31 Mar 1995 08:36:12 -0800 Message-Id: <199503311636.IAA03200@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: estienne.cs.berkeley.edu: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: mcaughey@infi.net (Michael Caughey) cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: routing or not routing? In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 31 Mar 1995 10:06:30 EST." <199503311506.KAA27769@larry.infi.net> Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1995 08:36:12 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >Is there any one who has a bit of spare time on their hands that can come to >my rescue? > >I'm know to the Ether net set up of my server. What I have is FreeBSD on a >486, a 3 com 3c509b ethernet card and a 28.8 modem for the ppp link. > > First the PPP works great. In the /etc/ppp/options file I have set the >local IP address to the of my host machine ?.?.?.1 and the remote to that of >the gateway at my service provider. > > My Ethernet card device is ep0 and is reconized fine by the kernel. My >goal is to be able to ping a machine on the network that is also running >TCP/IP. I've tried to set up the card using ifconfig. I used the line: > >ifconfig ep0 inet ?.?.?.1 up netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast ?.?.?.255 If you are running either 10base-T or aui (thicknet), you must specify the "link2" flag on the tail of you're ifconfig line. >Thanks in advance! > ------------------------------------------ >| Michael Caughey. | >| mcaughey@infi.net | >| running FreeBSD 2.0! | > ------------------------------------------ > -- Justin T. Gibbs ============================================== TCS Instructional Group - Programmer/Analyst 1 Cory | Po | Danube | Volga | Parker | Torus ==============================================