From owner-freebsd-net Fri Jun 19 01:24:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA20081 for freebsd-net-outgoing; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 01:24:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from muswell.demon.co.uk (muswell.demon.co.uk [158.152.10.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA20060; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 01:24:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ruth@muswell.demon.co.uk) Received: (from ruth@localhost) by muswell.demon.co.uk (8.8.7/8.6.12) id JAA01172; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 09:19:25 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 09:19:25 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <199806190819.JAA01172@muswell.demon.co.uk> From: ruth moulton MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: connecting NT and FBSD via tcp/ip over ethernet X-Mailer: VM 6.22 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Cc: ruth@muswell.demon.co.uk Disposition-notification-to: ruth@muswell.demon.co.uk Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, I'm trying to connect an NT Workstation 4 Service Pack 3 pentium II to a FreeBSD 2.1 running on a Pentium, over BNC ethernet, using NE2000 compatable Kingston KT20 cards. I don't really mind what protocols I get going, but have a preference for tcp/ip to start with - I understand the protocols and it will allow me to let the FBSD box be a router to the Internet via my ppp dial in from there. But I cannot get it going. The symptom is that, having configured it all up, when I ping the NT machine from FBSD, arp -r on NT shows the correct ethernet address of FBSD arp -r on FBSD shows incomplete instead of ethernet address of NT and the ping itself reports 'sendto: Host is down' ping the FBSD machine from NT and it makes no difference to arp tables on either machine, the ping simply reports 'request times out'. some things about the setup: I'm using host tables on both machines, no DNS as yet on FBSD, the ifconfig command is ifconfig ed0 192.168.0.2 broadcast 255.255.255.0, giving ed0: flags=8863 mtu 1500 inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 255.255.255.0 I'm using the private net number 192.168.0 on NT I only have the 'tcp/ip protocol' configured on FBSD netstat -r shows Routing tables Internet: Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Netif Expire localhost localhost UH 1 23 lo0 158.152.1.222 muswell UH 1 0 tun0 muswell localhost UGHS 1 0 lo0 192.168 link#1 UC 1 0 nt.home link#1 UHRLW 0 8 ed0 14 where nt.home is the nt machine on someone's reccomendation I've tried it with the ethernet board configured to both plug-and-play and NOT configured to PnP on the FBSD box the boards pass the receive/send hardware tests, and the appearance of the FBSD machine's address in the NT's arp table, lead me to believe the hardware and cabling are working. I've looked through the mail archives and it's obvious that some people have got this going, but not me!!! tcpdump can't run (yet) as /dev/bpf is not configured on FBSD, I presume that I need to remake the kernel, so will try doing this and looking at the packets on the net, but meanwhile I wondered if anyone had any suggestions - does this look like hardware (I'm not averse to buying a couple of other cards - they are cheaper than the time I'm spending on this!!!!!), or software or.... many thanks in advance ruth -- ================================================ Ruth Moulton ruth@muswell.demon.co.uk Consultant 65 Tetherdown, London N.10 1NH, UK Tel:+44 181 883 5823 -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message