From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 31 19:46:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA26495 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 19:46:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA26489 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 19:46:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id TAA19875; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 19:46:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 19:46:37 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Matthew D. Fuller" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTP install In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > > What are you specifying for the interface options in the installer (ip, > > netmask, gateway, etc.)? > Well, I solved the problem. Here's what: > 1) noticed messages on my xconsole about arp lookups failing:10.20.30.2 > not on local network. Oh really? > 2) added network 10.20.30 to /etc/networks > 2a) route add -net 10.20.3for vx0 instead of route add 10.20.30.2 > > I'm not really sure which of 2) or 2a) did it, but it works now. Any > ideas which did it? Probably 2a; /etc/networks is like /etc/hosts, it's purely for lookup only. (do a netstat -rn and you'll see your net route converted to a name.) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major