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Date:      04 Apr 1998 23:40:19 -0500
From:      stephen farrell <stephen@farrell.org>
To:        Dima Dorfman <webmaster@zwb.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Ethernet problems with NE2000
Message-ID:  <87vhsoev9o.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu>
In-Reply-To: Dima Dorfman's message of "Sat, 04 Apr 1998 18:12:53 -0800"
References:  <3.0.5.32.19980404181253.0092d100@mail.zwb.net>

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Dima Dorfman <webmaster@zwb.net> writes:

> I can't get my NE2000 ISA card to work with my FreeBSD 2.2.6 box.  It
> dedects it ok.  Then, I ru ifconfig, and configure the card by:
> 
> 	ifconfig ed0 inet 192.168.77.253 netmask 255.255.255.0
> 
> I know I'm using the right numbers, and I can ping 192.168.77.253(my
> address), but I can't ping 192.168.77.254 (IP of my laptop).  I get a
> "ping: sendto: permission denied".  I'm logged in as root, so I translate
> that as "hardware won't let you do that."


That permission denied error message sounds like you have some
firewalling misconfiguration.... besides that, I'd look at routing
(try netstat -r).  I don't think it's a hardware problem.

--

Steve Farrell


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