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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


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