From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 30 12:29:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA15730 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 12:29:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (root@andrsn.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA15720 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 12:29:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.8.7/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA02392; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 12:28:30 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 12:28:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson To: Greg Lehey cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network Connection Not Working In-Reply-To: <19970930181529.09285@lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Greg Lehey wrote: > > I still don't see why you need wire cutters. If this is coax, the two > most likely causes are: > > 1. Somebody tripped over a cable somewhere and split the network into > two non-functional halves. > 2. Somebody removed a terminator. > > See if the other machines on the net work first. You may have a fair > amount of debugging ahead of you. > > Greg No other machines on the network were up either--it turned out to be a broken cable. Thanks-- Annelise