From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 15 12:31:49 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 E5B4D16A415 for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2006 12:31:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com (mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A821943D64 for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2006 12:31:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from collaborativefusion.com (mx01.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.201]) (TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,AES256-SHA) by wingspan with esmtp; Fri, 15 Sep 2006 08:31:44 -0400 id 00056425.450A9D30.00002705 Received: from Internal Mail-Server (206.210.89.202) by mx01 (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 15 Sep 2006 08:28:31 -0400 Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 08:31:42 -0400 From: Bill Moran To: Arindam Message-Id: <20060915083142.15602164.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: References: <3748E46A-16BD-4AD9-8EC3-84B10538F2BB@u.washington.edu> <49B0565D-2C10-43CF-AB15-9CD712EFC074@u.washington.edu> <1158320583.25573.9.camel@freebsd> Organization: Collaborative Fusion X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Garrett Cooper , bob.middaugh@comcast.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Network connectivity between FreeBSD and Linux X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 12:31:50 -0000 In response to Arindam : [snip] > > >From the FreeBSD box, can you ping the loopback address: 127.0.0.1, if > > so, can you ping your ip address: 10.0.0.101. If so, can you ping your > > gateway? Did you set a gateway in /etc/rc.conf? > > loopback: Yes I can ping it. > > 10.0.0.101: Yes again I can ping it. But I set this as the gateway. I > just got two home PCs connected to each other over a 5-port switch > with. 10.0.0.100 and 10.0.0.101 (this one). I set this as the gateway > because a while later when I hook this to the web, this will be the > box. And I might add a couple of more boxes to this network at best. Don't do that. It may be the cause of your problem -- in any case, it's incorrect. Leave the system without a gateway if you don't have one. > I did not set a gateway in /etc/rc.conf. I configured the whole thing > using sysinstall and a couple of times after that using ifconfig (ip > addr and netmask). If you did it via sysinstall, then it was written to rc.conf. > > defaultrouter="your gateway ip address" # Set to default > > gateway (or NO). > > But I guess whatever the method, such an entry would have been written > to rc.conf. Yes. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc.