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Date:      Tue, 29 Jun 1999 15:33:49 -0700
From:      "Rami Soudah" <rsodah@index.com.jo>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   ping
Message-ID:  <377949CC.937B43CA@index.com.jo>

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Andre LeClaire wrote:

> Rami Soudah wrote:
> >
> > Greetings
> >
> > I made  my BSD box so that it dials
> > to my ISP, at the moment  I have 1 Win
> > computer connected to the BSD box, like
> > the following:
> > ISP <-----modem--->BSD (earth)
> >                                   |
> >                                  Win (metro)
> >
> > WIN-Hostname = metro = 192.168.0.2
> > BSD-Hostname = earth  = 192.168.0.1
> > I configured the BSD as Gateway for my Win box.
> >
> > I was able to dial-up from the BSD
> > and browse via netscape at both machienes... etc :-)
> >
> > To verify the above, I did ping <host-name> but I recorded
> > one strange behaviour:
> > I could ping 'earth' 'metro' and 'localhost' from the BSD box, and
> > and I did the same at Win box, I was able to ping 'earth'
'localhost'
> > from the Win box without having any troubles,
> > but  _not_  'metro'.
> >
> > c:\windows>ping metro
> > Pinging metro [4.0.0.3] with 32 bytes of data:
> > Reply from 192.168.0.1: Destination host unreachable.
> > Reply from 192.168.0.1: Destination host unreachable.
> > Reply from 192.168.0.1: Destination host unreachable.
> > Reply from 192.168.0.1: Destination host unreachable.
> >
> > Ping statistics for 4.0.0.3:
> > Packets: Sent 4, Received = 4 ... bla bla blaaa
> >
> > *) I was wondering from where 4.0.0.3 comes??
> > *) Why I keep getting 'Reply from 192.168.0.1'? i am not pinging
> >     192.168.0.1 it should be 192.168.0.2.
> >
> > What could be wrong?
> >
> > my /etc/hosts (BSD)
> > 127.0.0.1               localhost
> > 192.168.0.1           earth earth.my.domain
> > 192.168.0.2           metro metro.my.domain
> >
> > c:\windows\hosts (Win)
> > 127.0.0.1        localhost
> > 192.168.0.1    earth earth.my.domain
> > 192.168.0.2     metro metro.my.domain
> >
> > Routing tables
> > Internet:
> > Destination        Gateway            Flags     Refs     Use
Netif
> > Expire
> > 127.0.0.1          127.0.0.1          UH          0       30
lo0
> > 192.168            link#1             UC          0        0
ed1
> > 192.168.0.1     0:c0:df:e6:7b:51   UHLW        0      100      lo0
> > 192.168.0.2     0:0:e8:61:2:39     UHLW        2     2536      ed1
> > 1188
> > 192.168.0.255  ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff  UHLWb       2      154      ed1
> > bash-2.02$
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > -Pons
> >
> > P.S. If  I ping the IP's I dont have any troubles in both machines.
> >
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>
> Hello,
> I'm using the same setup on my home network, so I know it can work. In

> Windoze, make sure you've enabled DNS

Why should i enable the DNS? i am not running my own DNS...

> and set the IP address of your NIC
> to 192.168.0.2 in Start/Settings/Control
> Panel/Network/<your_NIC>/Properties/IP Address. Also,

I did,

> Microsoft TCP/IP
> seems to work better if you set "File and Printer Sharing" both to
"ON"

ok as you told me, i enabled the File and Printer Sharing

>
> and make sure TCP/IP is set as the default protocol in "Advanced".
>
> Andre

One thing more, i cant run mIRC at my Win-box

Thanks again for your help  :-)

-pons



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