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Date:      Sun, 01 Sep 2002 01:01:00 -0300
From:      Ken Easson <ken@justken.net>
To:        FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   cannot connect to network, with 2 nic's.
Message-ID:  <5.1.1.6.0.20020831235303.03e0d770@mail.justken.net>

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hello,
i hope this is the right forum for this quesion...

i am setting up a freebsd system and have been unable to connect to any 
network.
i have a system with 2 nic cards, xl0 and vr0. My cable modem is connected 
to xl0 and hub and windows pc's will be connected to vr0. i've disregarded 
vr0 as i hope to install the dhcp server to connect through this nic, once 
i have a network connection.

xl0 has been configured using DHCP.
my /etc/rc.config has the following line from /stand/sysinstall:

ifconfig_xl0="DHCP"

/etc/dhclient.conf is empty.

but no "send host-name "your-host-name" line: (if i need a hostname - i'm 
not clear on what that should be? i have used my domain name 
www.justken.net but this should be served through this gateway!)

and /var/db/dhclient.leases looks like this: (times 4)

lease {
         interface "xl0";
         fixed-address 192.168.241.30;
         filename "docsis.cfg";
         option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
         option time-offset -14400;
         option routers 192.168.241.1;
         option dhcp-lease-time 600;
         option dhcp-message-type 5;
         option domain-name-servers 24.222.0.13;
         option domain-name-servers 24.222.0.33;
         option broadcast-address 192.168.241.255;
         renew 6 2002/8/31 22:38:07;
         renew 6 2002/8/31 22:42:58;
         renew 6 2002/8/31 22:44:13;
}

FYI: looking at the ipconfig in win2k the dns info comes back as: 
24.222.0.75 and 24.138.0.7
with this i cannot ping or traceroute to anything but localhost. localhost 
resolves correctly.

when i ping i get the following results:

# ping www.google.com
PING www.google.com (216.239.51.101): 56 data bytes
^C
--- www.google.com ping statistics ---
38 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss

traceroute provides the following:

#traceroute www.google.com
traceroute to www.google.com (216.239.51.101), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
1  u128n1.hfx.eastling.ca (24.222.128.1) 24.962 ms  12.933 ms  7.673 ms
2  v183.hlfx-dr2.eastlink.ca (24.222.79.129) 27.051 ms  35.163 ms  13.143 ms
3  vl154.hlfx-dr1.eastlink.ca (24.222.79.125)  12.265 ms  10.265 ms  32.177 ms
4  ge1-2.hlfx-br1.eastlink.ca (24.222.79.205)  8.391 ms  11.315 ms  9.497 ms
5  * * *
6  * * *
...
11 * * *
^C

some final diagnostics that may help someone who knows what they are doing:
#netstat -rn
Routing tables

Internet:
Destination     Gateway Flags   Refs    Use     Netif   Expire
default         192.168.241.1   UGSc    2       0       xl0
127.0.0.1       127.0.0.1       UH      1       0       lo0
192.168.241     link#2          UC      1       0       xl0
192.168.241.1   00:02:fc:83:84:85 UHLW  3       0       xl0     1015
192.168.241.30 127.0.0.1        UGHS    0       0       lo0

looks to me that all outbound calls are being routed to localhost? why am i 
getting 4 hops in my traceroute? and the man page and unix reference i'm 
using said that i man not expect the results i get... anyone?

ifconfig: (xl0 results only)
xl0: flags=9943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
         option=3<rxcsum,txcsum>
         inet6 fe80::210:4bff:fe8f:f912%xl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
         inet 192.168.241.30 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.241.255
         ether 00:10:4b:8f:f9:12
         media: Ethernet autoselect (10bastT/UTP)
         status:active

It seems to be that i've got a lease, but i can't seem to get past the 
gateway router at the isp. DNS is working as expected,  but my packets 
arn't getting to their destination... i'm not a net guru yet... but ive 
tried to read all man pages, and follow the setup's - i had this system 
working with the @home before installing the second nic, and trying to 
configure as a router. If this helps - i did a reinstall from cd, installed 
the second nic card - turns out it was defective - and replaced it with 
this one. I have tried connecting to the host isp with both nic's and have 
not gotten past this point.

hope someone can help me out! would be greatly appreciated.

ken easson
justken.net
ken@justken.net
justken web programming and technical support.


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