Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:47:49 -0500 From: "Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar" <ramkumar@iastate.edu> To: wahjava.ml@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD Message-ID: <7c7927920801300847v665e7322ufb512701c0b1070a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200801292108.47352.wahjava.ml@gmail.com> References: <20080128214202.GO41095@hal.rescomp.berkeley.edu> <7c7927920801281803r87b733epb6788f93e6ac512d@mail.gmail.com> <20080129023722.GA23798@kobe.laptop> <200801292108.47352.wahjava.ml@gmail.com>
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I did have an IP address assigned to my ethernet interface( using the ifconfig command) but I'm unable to ping anybody in my LAN. On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 10:38 AM, आशीष Ashish <wahjava.ml@gmail.com> wrote: > ,--[ On Tuesday 29 Jan 2008, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > | On 2008-01-28 21:03, Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar <ramkumar@iastate.edu> wrote: > > [...] > > | Hmmm. There seems to be something very 'odd' about your interfaces. > | > | * There is no `lo0' loopback interface, which commonly uses the > | 127.0.0.1 address. > > Quoting Bhuvaneswari's output of "ifconfig -a" and "netstat -nr": > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > #ifconfig -a > > em0: flags=8802<BROADCAST, SIMPLEX, MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > options=b<RXSCUM, TXSCUM, VLAN_MTU> > ether :0d:56:f0:f1:ba > media:Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) > status: active > > plip0:flags=108810<POINTTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > lo0:flags=8049<UP, LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> MTU 16384 > inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 > inet ::1 prefixlen 128 > inet6 fe80 :: 1% lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > If you notice in the above there is already a lo0 interface, it is just > that > he missed a newline between plip0 and lo0 interface lines. So it seems you > missed the lo0 interface :) . > > So all he has to do is just assign some inet address to 'em0' interface, > and > ping other nodes in his LAN :) . And then when done testing IP network in > LAN, he can add a default route and try connecting to other hosts in the > internet. > > HTH > -- > Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल > http://wahjava.wordpress.com/ > ·-- ·- ···· ·--- ·- ···- ·- ·--·-· --· -- ·- ·· ·-·· ·-·-·- -·-· --- -- >help
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