Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 16:37:41 +0100 From: P.van Donselaar <p.van.donselaar@quicknet.nl> To: Brent B.Powers <powers@b2pi.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re:network problem Message-ID: <01010316410905.00499@dj.donselaar> References: <14931.17670.149720.308105@Max.B2Pi.com>
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On Wed, 03 Jan 2001, Brent B. Powers wrote: > >>>>> "P.van Donselaar" == P van Donselaar <p.van.donselaar@quicknet.nl> writes: > > P.van Donselaar> I posted this message to newbies but got no > P.van Donselaar> reaction I can't connect to mygateway computer > P.van Donselaar> and thus not to the internet. I'm using two > P.van Donselaar> computers,both with FreeBSD 3.3 installed, the > P.van Donselaar> gateway is configured as follows: > > <snip> > > Two solutions. FIrst, your netmask for de0 is wrong, and should be > 255.255.0.0. That might not do it however. > > You're probably getting a 192.168/16 address from the dhcp server that > you're dealing with. Try switching your addresses to the 10/8 or > 172/16/12. In other words, change > The dhcp server gives me a lease ip like 213.73. etc so that's not the problem > ifconfig_de0="inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0" > > to > > ifconfig_de0="inet 10.168.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0" > > and do the same thing for any other machines that you have. I tried what you suggested and still got the message host is down To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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