From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 14 13:11:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA03857 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 13:11:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from home.worldcontrol.com ([206.14.245.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA03852 for ; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 13:11:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stryder@worldcontrol.com) Received: (qmail 2351 invoked by uid 220); 14 Aug 1998 20:12:03 -0000 Message-ID: <19980814131203.39459@home.worldcontrol.com> Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 13:12:03 -0700 From: Jesse Robbins To: Douglas Setzer Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IP Problem. References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: ; from Douglas Setzer on Fri, Aug 14, 1998 at 03:13:37PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Have you checked the physical connection of the NIC to the hub... link lights on both sides??? Can you ping your own IP address? If you hook another machine to the cable in the new room, do you experience the same problems??? -jess On Aug 14, Douglas Setzer wrote: > Here is the deal- > This the second time this has happened, so maybe you guys can help so I don't have to do a reinstall again. > > We moved the physical location of our FreeBSD machine from one room to another, in doing so, we ended up booting the FreeBSD machine while it was not connected to the network. We hooked a cable into it after it was booted (sitting at a login prompt)- I logged in as root and shut it down- we restarted the computer and now it will not ping the network- not it's gateway, and definately nothing outside. > > I've tried using the /stand/sysinstall to reset the IP address and double-checked the gateway, but, I haven't had any luck doing anything at all. I am really new to FreeBSD, but, we need this machine up as a FTP server and we need it up before the weekend... > > If anyone can help, I'd appreciate it a lot. > > -Douglas Setzer > Webmaster, www.yorkcity.org > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message