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Date:      Mon, 15 Nov 2004 12:39:49 +0000
From:      Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org>
To:        Wes Santee <wsantee@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: LAN unreachable after 5.3 install
Message-ID:  <200411151239.49858.josh@tcbug.org>
In-Reply-To: <80d3279c04111510227422bb3a@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <80d3279c04111510227422bb3a@mail.gmail.com>

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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



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