From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 16 10:31:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA04876 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 10:31:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA04863 for ; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 10:31:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from gjallarhorn.ifi.uio.no (2602@gjallarhorn.ifi.uio.no [129.240.65.40]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.7/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id TAA24495; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 19:31:45 +0100 (MET) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by gjallarhorn.ifi.uio.no ; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 19:31:44 +0100 (MET) To: StRiKeN@bigfoot.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Networking References: <3.0.32.19971115230703.00696954@mail.geocities.com> Organization: FMKY X-url: http://www.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav) Date: 16 Nov 1997 19:31:42 +0100 In-Reply-To: StRiKeN@bigfoot.com's message of Sat, 15 Nov 1997 23:07:15 -0500 Message-ID: Lines: 41 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk StRiKeN@bigfoot.com writes: > I try to ping client and nothing. > > try to ping self at Ip 234.234.234.1 and nothing. > > ping at 127.0.0.0 and get all packet s back > > my nics are being detected fine on boot up and my hub says that both > systems are connecting to hub... Is there any words of wisdom that > maybe helpful? It'd be easier to help you if you provided all the relevant information, such as: - 'dmesg' output (at least the NIC part) - ifconfig settings from /etc/sysconfig or /etc/rc.conf - 'ifconfig -au' output - contents of /etc/hosts, /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/host.conf Also, the IP address you are using is in the multicast range, which is hardly what you want. You may choose IP addresses in the following ranges (from RFC1918 "Address Allocation for Private Internets", section 3 "Private Address Space"): The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has reserved the following three blocks of the IP address space for private internets: 10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255 (10/8 prefix) 172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255 (172.16/12 prefix) 192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255 (192.168/16 prefix) (end quote) Appropriate subnetnet masks can be deduced from the prefixes. The most commonly used address range for a small LAN such as yours is 10.0.0.0 - 10.0.0.255 with a netmask of 0xffffff00. -- * Finrod (INTJ) * Unix weenie * dag-erli@ifi.uio.no * cellular +47-92835919 * RFC1123: "Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send"