From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 16 11:33:32 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA03215 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 16 Jul 1995 11:33:32 -0700 Received: from rcorco.rco.qc.ca (rcorco.rco.qc.ca [192.219.247.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA03209 for ; Sun, 16 Jul 1995 11:33:27 -0700 Received: from G7014.258.InterLink.NET by rcorco.rco.qc.ca with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #6) id m0sXYHn-0002rbC; Sun, 16 Jul 95 14:19 EDT Message-Id: Date: Sun, 16 Jul 95 14:19 EDT X-Sender: leopapan@interax.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: questions@freebsd.org From: leopapan@interax.net (leo papandreou) Subject: Re: SLIP: Is this what they mean by Point-to-Point? Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >leo papandreou stands accused of saying: > >> and for bart they are the same except for: >> network_interfaces="de0 lo0" >> ifconfig_de0="inet 205.205.16.1 netmask 0xffffff00" >> defaultrouter=NO > >Here's your error; bart should have lisa as a default router. It's trying >to arp on the local ethernet for a nonlocal host. > Well there are only 2 machines and lisa is the gateway so naturally that's what i tried but bart would only hang on boot. >You should set it to lisa. You should also make sure that IP forwarding >is on in lisa's kernel; this may also be a problem. DOH! The universe is presently unfolding as it should. -Leo