From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 27 10: 1:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f135.law3.hotmail.com [209.185.241.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D923537B404 for ; Sun, 27 Jan 2002 10:01:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sun, 27 Jan 2002 10:01:01 -0800 Received: from 159.49.254.12 by lw3fd.law3.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Sun, 27 Jan 2002 18:01:01 GMT X-Originating-IP: [159.49.254.12] Reply-To: mylasticposse@yahoo.com From: "Miles C" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Status: no carrier Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 09:01:01 -0900 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 27 Jan 2002 18:01:01.0845 (UTC) FILETIME=[94CE1C50:01C1A75C] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am new to this so I may not even be asking the right questions. My goal was to set up a lan within a lan to get a little bit of practice at least making firewall rules before I set up a live gateway/router with my connection to at&t. I searched the mail list archives and haven't found a mention of no carrier status for the second NIC I put into the FreeBSD box. the first is a 3com905 which is listed as xl0, the second is a FA311Netgear, listed as sis0. If I plug the ethernet cable from the existing server into one card, that card will show as being active, the other will show a status of no carrier. Doesn't matter which card, only that the cable from the server is inserted. however, I keep getting an error message from ARP trying to access one IP address which I assigned to the box and is getting a response from the wrong card. I am at work so I don't have the exact error message or I would post that. I have been working the same problem for a couple of days now, and basically I have run out of ideas. I think it probable that I haven't set up the new NIC properly, though I was very careful when it came to ifconfig to set it with a netmask and the appropriate IP for a class C address. I may be doing something that isn't really feasible as well. With the information from FreeBSDdiary.org as an example, most of the setup for a gateway has involved using an ISP with one IP and a second card the local LAN but not within the same LAN. So I am curious if what I am trying to do is really feasible. Any suggestions? Thank you in advance for any help that you can send. Miles _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message