From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 12 11:47:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B70737B491 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 11:47:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from home.com ([24.177.141.133]) by femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20010212194518.FCMG21891.femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com@home.com>; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 11:45:18 -0800 Message-ID: <3A883DC1.E48574C3@home.com> Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 11:47:13 -0800 From: "Raymundo M. Vega" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.5.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dominic Marks Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Win2k, FreeBSD, Small Home Network, Router References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message