From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 16 08:33:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA03010 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 08:33:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orion.w3page.com (root@p22.pm-3.pm.dimensional.com [206.100.130.86]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA02987 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 08:33:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orion (blaine@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orion.w3page.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA01347 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 09:33:17 -0600 Message-ID: <31EBB63D.630E51FF@w3page.com> Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 09:33:17 -0600 From: Blaine Minazzi Organization: What, me organized? X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b3 (X11; I; Linux 1.2.13 i486) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: networking Linux <--> FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Congratulations to the FreeBSD crowd. You managed to reduce me to a quivering mass of nerves. After looking through the massive ( lack ) of documentation :-( , I have to do the one thing all grown men hate to do the most. Ask for help... Here is something that should be rather simple. Connect a Linux and FreeBSD box using TCP/IP. I have done this with Linux <--> Linux, but, for the life of me, I cannot talk to the BSD machine. My /etc/hosts files are 127.0.0.1 localhost 172.16.0.10 orion.whatever.com orion 172.16.0.20 xenu.whatever.com xenu my networks file is 172.16.0.0 what-net I ifconfig 172.16.0.10 ( and .20 ) to the devices eth0 and ed1 on the 2 machines respectively. Now on the linux box, I route add orion, and route add what-net I am not so clear on the BSD side of things. There is a slight syntax differnece, and have read the man pages, etc... Also, could someone be so kind as to give me some info on the /etc/sysconfig file... How is yours set up? A few examples could go a long way to making this the easy job I know it to be... All help greatly appreciated. -- Sincerely, Blaine Minazzi