Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:56:10 -0500 From: "Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar" <ramkumar@iastate.edu> To: "Alphons Fonz van Werven" <a.j.werven@student.utwente.nl>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD Message-ID: <7c7927920801281756j367cd0c5mba8237997389330b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <479E6C8D.5090805@student.utwente.nl> References: <7c7927920801281329n609abb8ah63a18f1afb56099d@mail.gmail.com> <20080128214202.GO41095@hal.rescomp.berkeley.edu> <7c7927920801281518h5adfb91dta827fcae39ebc09a@mail.gmail.com> <7c7927920801281538g66f00cd5v6ebd9ff01ff3c83@mail.gmail.com> <479E6C8D.5090805@student.utwente.nl>
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ifconfig -a em0: flags .......lot of data ..................... status: active ( I'm guessing this is the ethernet interface) lo0: similar stuff as em0 and my var/log/messages has a lot of data in it, I dont know if I'm identifying a boot message accurately but there is a line that specifies the location of a kernel boot file as /boot/kernel.............I dont know if this is just default message present here On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 7:00 PM, Alphons Fonz van Werven < a.j.werven@student.utwente.nl> wrote: > Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar wrote: > > > I'm guessing it does detect the interface, network-device & all that, > bcos > > my ifconfig says the ethernet status is active. But still I'm unable to > do > > any kind of networking at all, even pings from other PCs to this one > remain > > unreachable. I'm wondering if I should configure something else in the > > sysinstall or the rc.conf file. > > Hehe. Network problem solving often seems more about magic than about > logic... > > Anyway, for starters, can you send me the output of ifconfig -a? > Also, if your NIC got detected, there should be some boot messages in > /var/log/messages. You might want to check on that. > > Alphons > > -- > VISTA - Viruses Intruders Spyware Trojans Adware > >
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