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From: "Raymundo M. Vega" <RaymundoVega@home.com>
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To: Dominic Marks <dominic_marks@btinternet.com>
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Subject: Re: Win2k, FreeBSD, Small Home Network, Router
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Dominic Marks wrote:
> 
> The FreeBSD machine is now at 192.168.1.2 and the Win2k machine is now at
> 192.168.1.1 However still no progress. I've tried pinging each way and
> telnetting to the FreeBSD machine, but with no luck.
> 
> Some further queries:
> The Win2k machine is set with its gateway as itself, is this correct?

No, but to ping the FreeBSD box, I think it does not matter,
you will have to change the default route when you try to reach
a host outside your local network and in this case should point
to the FreeBSD computer.

> 
> Is the default FreeBSD netmask 255.255.255.0
> 
> Is this:
> 
> # ifconfig vr0 192.168.1.2
> 
> the correct way to bind an IP to a NIC under FreeBSD?

you can always check the result of this command with:

ifconfig -a

and this will print the configuration of all your nic's.

Hope this help

raymundo

> 
> I would like to know this, it is possible that this hub is dead, although I
> hope not.
> 
> Many thanks for any help
> Dominic Marks
>


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