Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:08:42 +0530 From: =?utf-8?q?=E0=A4=86=E0=A4=B6=E0=A5=80=E0=A4=B7_Ashish?= <wahjava.ml@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD Message-ID: <200801292108.47352.wahjava.ml@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080129023722.GA23798@kobe.laptop> References: <20080128214202.GO41095@hal.rescomp.berkeley.edu> <7c7927920801281803r87b733epb6788f93e6ac512d@mail.gmail.com> <20080129023722.GA23798@kobe.laptop>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] ,--[ 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/ ·-- ·- ···· ·--- ·- ···- ·- ·--·-· --· -- ·- ·· ·-·· ·-·-·- -·-· --- -- [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBHn0iHHy+EEHYuXnQRAspYAJ9WbEpEhesN2/x2+pvZKGifN7sF6gCgm9GM 68KcFTDWnYDALEoMW2c0Xx0= =7FDs -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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