Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 15:15:57 -0800 From: "Clark Mankin" <cmankin@harbornet.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: BSD network hired guns? Message-ID: <000a01c19fac$ebd3c480$0301a8c0@clicknetwork.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Hello, I've been using various Linux platforms for 5 years with excellent results. I have an oddly configured network because it's on a rented netblock inside another netblock. The resulting netmask being 255.248. BSD apparently has some difficulty with this (I'm not certain what the problem is, just guessing.) Under Linux, the OS asks all the right questions, has places to input all the required information, and even as a bright green newbie I brought up a fairly complicated network first try and it has run for 5 years in spite of various upgrades, changes in the underlying platform etc. FreeBSD networking refuses to run. I can't input the required information by manual means (following the instructions in Greg Lehey's book) and the /stand/sysinstall script does not collect enough information from the user to make the network fly. For example, whereas it's true my "default router", as you call it, is at IP 209.180.198.22 I can only get there on eth0 (xl0 - ep0 ??) via the gateway of 0.0.0.0 and unfortunately BSD is completely unwilling to accept this information. It's as though BSD expects me to have a hard wired direct connection to the gateway device. That's not how I'm configured. I have an ethernet router connected to a switch that feeds the other machines on the network. \\ At any rate, I have exhausted the limits of my expertise (which is limited by my Linux experience of 5 years), and I'm now ready to hire somebody. Can you recommend anyone in the greater Seattle area? This individual will not be able to telnet in because I can't bring up a network to get him inside. If I could bring the network up I wouldn't need him. So he may have to drive to my site and do some local console keyboarding. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.314 / Virus Database: 175 - Release Date: 1/11/02 [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4522.1800" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=4>Hello,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=4></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=4>I've been using various Linux platforms for 5 years with excellent results. I have an oddly configured network because it's on a rented netblock inside another netblock. The resulting netmask being 255.248.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=4></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=4>BSD apparently has some difficulty with this (I'm not certain what the problem is, just guessing.)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=4></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=4>Under Linux, the OS asks all the right questions, has places to input all the required information, and even as a bright green newbie I brought up a fairly complicated network first try and it has run for 5 years in spite of various upgrades, changes in the underlying platform etc.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=4></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=4>FreeBSD networking refuses to run. I can't input the required information by manual means (following the instructions in Greg Lehey's book) and the /stand/sysinstall script does not collect enough information from the user to make the network fly.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=4></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=4>For example, whereas it's true my "default router", as you call it, is at IP 209.180.198.22 I can only get there on eth0 (xl0 - ep0 ??) via the gateway of 0.0.0.0</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=4>and unfortunately BSD is completely unwilling to accept this information. It's as though BSD expects me to have a hard wired direct connection to the gateway device. That's not how I'm configured. I have an ethernet router connected to a switch that feeds the other machines on the network. \\</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=4></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=4>At any rate, I have exhausted the limits of my expertise (which is limited by my Linux experience of 5 years), and I'm now ready to hire somebody.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=4></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=4>Can you recommend anyone in the greater Seattle area? This individual will not be able to telnet in because I can't bring up a network to get him inside. If I could bring the network up I wouldn't need him. So he may have to drive to my site and do some local console keyboarding.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=4><BR>---<BR>Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.<BR>Checked by AVG anti-virus system (<A href="http://www.grisoft.com">http://www.grisoft.com</A>).<BR>Version: 6.0.314 / Virus Database: 175 - Release Date: 1/11/02</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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