Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 19:24:18 +0530 From: Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com> To: chris@bsdjunk.com, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help needed to re-connect FreeBSD to internet Message-ID: <BLU436-SMTP987695569C093783F7C03DF6B30@phx.gbl> In-Reply-To: <c759c5efdfe77e1889744011d4214f13@bsdjunk.com> References: <BLU436-SMTP85601505A5CD7F34C11CD3F6B30@phx.gbl> <c759c5efdfe77e1889744011d4214f13@bsdjunk.com>
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On 03/09/16 13:39, chris@bsdjunk.com wrote: > On 2016-03-09 01:59, Manish Jain wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am using a dual-boot machine Windows XP SP3 and FreeBSD 10.2 amd64, >> using a Wi-Fi modem connected to the PC with a LAN cable. Till a >> couple of days back, the systems had no issue connecting to internet >> and the world seemed rosy. All of a sudden, yesterday disaster struck >> and neither was able open up any site in the web browser. >> >> Help from the service provider got the Windows system working again. I >> enabled Internet Connection Sharing and replaced DHCP with >> 192.168.10.3 for the PC and 192.168.10.1 for the Wi-Fi modem >> (default_router). While the Windows connects to the internet now, the >> FreeBSD box remains stuck with roughly those same settings. >> >> ifconfig re0 : >> re0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu >> 1500 >> options=8209b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,WOL_MAGIC,LINKSTATE> >> >> >> ether 50:46:5d:66:fd:10 >> inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 255.255.255.255 >> nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL> >> media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) >> status: active >> >> pinging 192.168.1.1 produces 'no route to host' and 100.0% packet >> loss. At boot-time, the system seems to attempt getting a DHCP lease >> multiple times without success. >> >> cat /etc/resolv.conf : >> >> nameserver 192.168.1.1 >> >> cat /etc/rc.conf : >> >> hostname="freebsd10dot2.amd64.local" >> ifconfig_re0="DHCP" >> sshd_enable="YES" >> # Set dumpdev to "AUTO" to enable crash dumps, "NO" to disable >> dumpdev="AUTO" >> keyrate="fast" >> apcupsd_enable="YES" >> dbus_enable="YES" >> hald_enable="YES" >> gnome_enable="YES" >> linux_enable="YES" >> mysql_enable="YES" >> fusefs_enable="YES" >> atapicam_load="YES" >> cupsd_enable="NO" >> >> >> Can someone please point me to what might be the error/changes needed >> for my FreeBSD box to connect to internet again ? Thank you. >> >> -- >> Regards, >> >> Manish Jain > Hi, > > By the looks of it you changed the IP but forgot to add the default > route. > > http://handbook.bsdjunk.com/network-routing.html > > When using a static IP you're required to add in a infconfig_nic0="" > and defaultroute="" or else it has no where to route the packets. > > once you do that you can test using service netif restart && service > routing restart > > Chris > > Hi Chris/Polytropon, It worked ! The error I was making was using 'default_router' instead of 'defaultrouter' in rc.conf. Using 'bsdconfig networking' sorted that out. I still can't figure though why DHCP was working till the day before. Anyways, thanks a lot. Regards Manish Jain
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