From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 16 14: 4:23 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1016737B401 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 14:04:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11EA543ED8 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 14:04:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com ([172.16.0.95]) by mail.adelphia.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h0GM5TAg007000; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 17:05:29 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E2720B0.5000902@potentialtech.com> Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 16:14:24 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021127 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Redmond Militante Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: another go at ipfw/natd References: <20030116210148.GA4352@darkpossum> <3E2715C5.3080704@potentialtech.com> <20030116213435.GA4429@darkpossum> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Redmond Militante wrote: >> 3. What does ifconfig display on the gateway? Does xl1 show as "up" with a >> valid media type? > xl1: flags=8843 mtu 1500 > options=3 > inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255 > inet6 fe80::206:5bff:fe80:985b%xl1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 > ether 00:06:5b:80:98:5b > media: Ethernet autoselect (none) > status: no carrier Notice the 'autoselect (none)' and 'status: no carrier' These are indicative of faulty wiring or NIC problems. Since you state that you tested the NICs, I would double check the wiring. If you're going directly NIC<->NIC, you'll need a crossover cable. Make sure that the cable you're using is a crossover and is properly wired. If so, verify that the cable is good (usually easiest to try a different cable, unless you have the pricey testing stuff). It looks like everything else is OK, I'm guessing that once you've got the cable situation worked out, everything will start working. > i am hooking the client directly into the internal nic on the gateway, > so no hub. i've verified that both nics on the gateway work - did this > by configuring xl1 as the primary nic, and it worked. Do the NICs have link lights on the back? Most NICs do. I'm guessing that they're dark, indicating that it can't negiotiate a link. Although I've seen some NICs that will turn the link light on even if things are wired wrong (which is really frustrating when you're trying to diagnose problems!) -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message