Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 07:52:39 -0400 From: "Rich Webster" <RWebster@tns-inc.com> To: "Richard Webster (E-mail)" <rwebster@tns-inc.com> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: newbie IP question Message-ID: <002501be8b24$4b14f220$612dfea9@rwebster> In-Reply-To: <19990419195833.YMYW5596385.mta1-rme@wocker>
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-----Original Message----- From: Dan Langille [mailto:junkmale@xtra.co.nz] You should keep all replies cc'd to the mailing list. I don't know your answer. But someone on the mailing list will. On 19 Apr 99, at 8:25, Rich Webster wrote: > Dan, thank you so much for responding. I will read the page you sent me > and try the fix tonight. BTW, I am not using ppp. All of the boxes are > on the same Ethernet segment. The BSD box has full IP access to the > network, I can ping, ftp and telnet anywhere from it. I was beginning to > think that it was a trust relationship thing because I can not reach the > BSD box at any IP layer from another box. I tried pinging, telnet, and > ftp and the box just does not respond unless as I said before I run > something like netstat (or route flush) and then only while netstat is > running on the BSD box. As soon as netstat stops the pings begin to time > out again. When I flush the routes I can reach it for a short time but > then the machine must rediscover its incorrect routing info and I begin to > time out again. Initially I thought that maybe BSD has a problem with > classless routing. It seems like a routing problem but I don't know. I > am running routed. Does this make any sense at all? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dan Langille [mailto:junkmale@xtra.co.nz] > Sent: Friday, April 16, 1999 5:47 PM > To: Rich Webster > Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: newbie IP question > > > On 16 Apr 99, at 14:54, Rich Webster wrote: > > > I have installed a BSD box twice now and it seems to work fine. I can > > ping and use IP to do whatever I like from the machine. However I can > > not ping it or access it from another machine. I am using a ten net > > address with the default class c mask. I notice that if I run netstat > > -r that while netstat is running the BSD box is pingable from another > > machine. I can ftp to the machine. When netstat -r stops I lose my > > connection. What is happening here? This is a fresh install. Do I > > need to tell the BSD box who it can trust to respond to? Please e-mail > > you answer to me at rwebster@tns-inc.com. Thank you very much in > > advance. I've been playing with this for a while and am now pretty > > frustrated. > > There a few things you need to do here. > > 1 - make the FreeBSD box a gateway. > 2 - enable ip alaising on the FreeBSD box > 3 - make the FreeBSD box your default gateway on your other boxes. > > To do this you need: > > see http://www.freebsddiary.com/freebsd/alias.htm > > I am assuming you are using PPP. If not, then please complain. > > -- > Dan Langille > The FreeBSD Diary > http://www.FreeBSDDiary.com/freebsd > -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary - http://www.FreeBSDDiary.org/freebsd/ NZ FreeBSD User Group - http://www.nzfug.nz.freebsd.org/ The Racing System - http://www.racingsystem.com/racingsystem.htm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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