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From: Arindam <arindam.mukerjee@gmail.com>
To: "Garrett Cooper" <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
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Subject: Re: Network connectivity between FreeBSD and Linux
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>
> > I have FreeBSD 6.1 installed on one machine and Fedora Core 2 on
> > another. I dual boot the FreeBSD 6.1 machine with a RedHat EL 4.3
> > installation. I have assigned the same static IP address and hostname
> > to this machine for both the FreeBSD and RHEL installations.
> >
> > While my RHEL installation is running, I am able to communicate with
> > the FC2 installation over the network. When FreeBSD is running, all
> > pings from either side fail. I have no clue if I need to look at some
> > special configuration, or is it a problem with the basics.
> >
> > Wond'ring what to do.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Andy
> > --
>
> /sbin/ifconfig output? Also, do you happen to have a firewall in your
> FreeBSD OS setup :)?

1. It will take me a while to get the ifconfig output. Will post it in
a few hours may be.
2. I am FreeBSD newbie. I am not sure how to check if a firewall is
running. I doubt if there is ... I don't remember installing one. Can
please you tell me how to look?

> -Garrett

Cheers,
Andy