Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 12:32:30 -0600 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Alvaro_J=2E_Gurdi=E1n=22?= <AJGurdian@lanoticia.com>, FreeBSD-Questions Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: cannot ping anything Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20060120123154.025c07c0@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <cd62a5bbe1b0b8ee16c82232b697f3d6@lanoticia.com> References: <cd62a5bbe1b0b8ee16c82232b697f3d6@lanoticia.com>
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Check your /etc/rc.conf for this line:
defaultrouter=3D"192.168.1.1"
add it and reboot if it is missing
-Derek
At 12:26 PM 1/20/2006, Alvaro J. Gurdi=E1n wrote:
>Yesterday I placed an HD with Freebsd 5.3 release in a Dell Dimension=20
>L800CXE. It booted properly. ( since it's running a generic kernel with=20
>only a name change)
>
>However I could not ping anything inside or outside the LAN.
>Ex:
>ping google.com
>ping: cannot resolve google.com: Hostname lookup failure
>
>ping 192.168.1.1
>ping: sendto: No route to host
>
>I tried several addresses inside the LAN, 127.0.0.1, localhost,=20
>192.168.1.128, and all gave the same result.
>
>I was previously using this HD in another machine to test IPF, with NAT=20
>also, and it worked peerfectly there.
>
>
>So just to be safe I erased the contents of /etc/rc.conf, and then used=20
>sysinstall to bring up my NIC. I chose NO for IPv6, and YES for DHCP.
>
>That seemed to work correctly, just to be sure I ran ifconfig:
>dc0: flags=3D108843<UP,BROACAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTIPLY> MTU 1500
> options=3D8<VLAN_MTU>
> inet 192.168.1.128 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
> ether 00:80:ad:81:1a:9f
> media: Ethernat autoselect (100baseTX)
> status: active
>plip0: flags=3D108810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>lo0: flags=3D8049<UP,LOOPBACK,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
>
>Still, things are looking good; so, I go to another box, log into my=20
>router(192.168.1.1), and I can see the MAC address of the BSD box on my=
router.
>
>
>However, I still get the same results when I ping as I did above.
>
>Then I checked the routing tables:
>
>netstat -r
>Routing Tables
>
>Internet:
>Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Netif =
Expire
>default 192.168.1.1 UGS 0 6 dc0
>localhost localhost UH 1=
=20
> 37 lo0
>192.168.1 link#1 UC 0 0=
=20
> dc0
>192.168.1.1 00:0c:41:bd:49:7d UHLW 1 0 dc0 695
>192.168.1.128 localhost UGHS 0 0 lo0
>
>The output of netstat and ifconfig aboe are from today. I began having=20
>this problem yesterday, and left the box on over night. Yesterday's=20
>output was different in that the BSD box had a different IP address,=20
>192.168.1.122. That is fine I understand that the box is communicating=20
>with the router and negotiating leases when they expire. However, why has=
=20
>the gateway to 192.168.1.1 changed from link#1 to the MAC address of my=20
>router. I am certain that if I restart the computer that same gateway=20
>will revert to link#1.
>
>The my questions are:
>How do I get the system to see others in the network, and vice-versa?
>What should the gateway for 192.168.1.1 be?(which also happens to be my=20
>routers address)
>
>
>I am hoping it is something simple. I could just as have easily=20
>reinstalled the system and started from scratch, but I wanted to know how=
=20
>to solve this problem.
>
>Other info that might help:
>less /etc/rc.conf
>ifconfig_dco=3D"DHCP"
>hostname=3D"fw.company.com"
>defaultrouter=3D"192.168.1.1"
>
>less /etc/resolv.conf
>search carolina.rr.com
>nameserver 24.25.5.60
>naemserver 24.25.5.61
>
>less /etc/hosts
>::1 localhost.company.com localhost
>127.0.0.1 localhost.company.com localhost
>
>Thanks in advance
>
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