From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 15 18:42:10 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 384B216A4CE for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 18:42:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccmmhc92.asp.att.net (sccmmhc92.asp.att.net [204.127.203.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB0D143D55 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 18:42:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from josh@tcbug.org) Received: from [10.0.0.10] (12-218-40-24.client.mchsi.com[12.218.40.24]) by sccmmhc92.asp.att.net (sccmmhc92) with ESMTP id <20041115184206m9200k10cne>; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 18:42:06 +0000 From: Josh Paetzel To: Wes Santee Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 12:39:49 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <80d3279c04111510227422bb3a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <80d3279c04111510227422bb3a@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200411151239.49858.josh@tcbug.org> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LAN unreachable after 5.3 install X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 18:42:10 -0000 On Monday 15 November 2004 18:22, Wes Santee wrote: > Greetings all, > > I've just completed update from 4.9 to 5.3 and so far not much is > working. I went the "format and install" route to minimize > incompatibilities. After the install, the first thing I wanted to > do was get my network up and running. > > I've got a pretty standard setup: LAN on one NIC, PPPoE Internet on > the other NIC with NAT addressing. Ignore the PPPoE and gateway > side of things for a bit, my problem is that after install, I can't > see my LAN. From the FreeBSD box I try this: > > ping -S 10.0.0.1 10.0.0.254 > > but none of the pings are responded to. From 10.0.0.254, I try > pinging 10.0.0.1, but the result is the same. > > Okay, here is the WEIRD part: When I run tcpdump to see what's > going on, all of a sudden everything starts working! It's as if > going into promiscuous mode shuts off some kind of block that I > can't figure out. When I kill tcpdump, it goes back to not working > again. > > Any ideas what is causing this or how to fix it? I strolled > through the install notes, but I don't even know what I'm looking > for. That makes searching the mailing list archives difficult > also. > > Cheers, > -Wes The output of ifconfig may be useful in tracking down your problem -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel