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Date:      Sun, 6 Jun 1999 04:49:48 -0500 (EST)
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net>
To:        Brian Pontz <pontz@channel1.com>
Cc:        Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Connecting to a network
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.990606044803.9491a-100000@cygnus.rush.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906060228050.21328-100000@user1.channel1.com>

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On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Brian Pontz wrote:

> Thanks... I did already have that set to 10.0.0.1 since that is the router
> when I use dialup. The one thing I see different when I do ifconfig -a on
> both mahines is that the broadcast for eth0 on the linux box is 10.0.0.0
> and on the freeBSD box (ed1) it is 10.0.0.255 . Icant figure out how to
> make it 10.0.0.0

It shouldn't be .0, it should be .255 I don't know what Linux
is smoking, .0 is REALLY REALLY old way of doing the broadcast. :)

Since everything _looks_ ok, i would suggest swapping the ethernet
calbe with one of the cables being used by 95 or Linux, you may
have a simple cabling problem.

-Alfred



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