From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 6 2:26:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B7B414BF9 for ; Sun, 6 Jun 1999 02:26:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id EAA25002; Sun, 6 Jun 1999 04:49:50 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 04:49:48 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Brian Pontz Cc: Jason Evans , 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 On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Brian Pontz wrote: > 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 It shouldn't be .0, it should be .255 I don't know what Linux is smoking, .0 is REALLY REALLY old way of doing the broadcast. :) Since everything _looks_ ok, i would suggest swapping the ethernet calbe with one of the cables being used by 95 or Linux, you may have a simple cabling problem. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message