Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 10:07:50 -0500 From: Walter <walterk1@earthlink.net> To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Mac can't connect to Internet Message-ID: <3DB6BB45.9E83F6C9@earthlink.net> References: <20021022112154.B7681-100000@babelfish.pursued-with.net> <200210221938.54688.dkelly@HiWAAY.net> <3DB5F39B.462A9489@earthlink.net>
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Success - kind of. Recompiling the kernel using the instructions here: http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/kern.html specifically: make kernel KERNCONF=YOURKERNEL yielded a compile error. I tried again with the instructions here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html and it compiled and installed fine... And it worked! but only for a time. As it happened, I received a telephone call from someone who knows I am trying to get FBSD running, and I (oh, so unwisely) announced that it was working, for at that moment, I had just power-cycled the cable-modem, moved the cable connection over to the FBSD box while it was rebotting, changed the Mac net config to talk to the FBSD box and I was retieving various messages from a newsgroup just fine. I was also able to ping everything from a Mac terminal session, even the outside world. But, after several minutes I clicked to check my e-mail and got an error saying it could find the mail server. I went back to the newsgroup to now get a similar "can't find the server" error. I could still ping the world. Questions: What happened and what can I try to solve it? Also, of curiosity: Why are not IPFIREWALL and IPDIVERT included in the GENERIC kernel? Thanks in advance. Walter Walter wrote: > I had actually tried it with the firewall enabled previously, > but because that had not worked either, had disabled > hoping it would work after (mis-?)reading a post here. > But it seems now that I failed to recompile the kernel > with IPFIREWALL and IPDIVERT, so I'll check back > once that's done and tested. > (Fwiw, the configuration I'm trying to implement is: > Cable-Modem <=> FBSD <=> hub <=> Mac, PC, etc.) > > <snip> > > > David Kelly wrote: > > > In setting up my firewall I found this URL very handy: > > http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/ > > > > Specifically is this one which I believe was the most help: > > http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/ipfw.html > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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