From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 5 23:33: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from user1.channel1.com (user1.channel1.com [199.1.13.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DB4314DD3 for ; Sat, 5 Jun 1999 23:33:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pontz@channel1.com) Received: from user1.channel1.com (IDENT:pontz@user1.channel1.com [199.1.13.9]) by user1.channel1.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA23096; Sun, 6 Jun 1999 02:32:57 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 02:32:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Pontz To: Jason Evans Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Connecting to a network In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks... I did already have that set to 10.0.0.1 since that is the router when I use dialup. The one thing I see different when I do ifconfig -a on both mahines is that the broadcast for eth0 on the linux box is 10.0.0.0 and on the freeBSD box (ed1) it is 10.0.0.255 . Icant figure out how to make it 10.0.0.0 Brian Windows 95 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, Jason Evans wrote: > Everything you present in your email looks okay to me (though I'm no > networking expert). The next thing I would look at is the routing table. > Type 'netstat -nr' to see what routes are set up. I'm guessing that you > don't have a default route (a default route has the word 'default' as the > first word of the line) set up. You can manually add a default route with > the 'route' command. I think that changing: > > defaultrouter="NO" > > to > > defaultrouter="10.0.0.1" > > (assuming 10.0.0.1 is your gateway) in /etc/rc.conf will cause a default > route to be added during boot. > > Jason > > Jason Evans > http://www.canonware.com/~jasone > Home phone: (650) 856-8204 > Work phone: (415) 808-8742 > "I once knew a happy medium. Her name was Zohar." - James Foster > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message