From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Jun 15 16:49:45 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0913E101395B for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2018 16:49:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@dreamchaser.org) Received: from nightmare.dreamchaser.org (ns.dreamchaser.org [66.109.141.57]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "dreamchaser.org", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 639E877F94 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2018 16:49:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@dreamchaser.org) Received: from breakaway.dreamchaser.org (breakaway [192.168.151.122]) by nightmare.dreamchaser.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id w5FGnfub018398; Fri, 15 Jun 2018 10:49:41 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from freebsd@dreamchaser.org) Subject: Re: Problems Connecting Laptop To Modem To: B J , Erich Dollansky Cc: Chris Gordon , freebsd-questions References: <20180613102426.3874c581.freebsd.ed.lists@sumeritec.com> <20180613162137.5cc6794a.freebsd.ed.lists@sumeritec.com> <3E3890A6-72F9-4D80-A021-837FFDB35A39@theory14.net> <20180614093928.6f39434e.freebsd.ed.lists@sumeritec.com> <20180614161923.5246ae81.freebsd.ed.lists@sumeritec.com> <20180615102548.1c686d1b.freebsd.ed.lists@sumeritec.com> Reply-To: freebsd@dreamchaser.org From: Gary Aitken Message-ID: Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 10:48:57 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.6.2 (nightmare.dreamchaser.org [192.168.151.101]); Fri, 15 Jun 2018 10:49:42 -0600 (MDT) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 16:49:45 -0000 On 06/14/18 22:08, B J wrote: > > >>> hostname="VA6BMJ" >>> ifconfig_nfe0="inet 192.168.0.12 netmask 255.255.255.0" >> >> if you have this line, you have to have a line like this: >> >> defaultrouter="192.168.0.xxx" >> >> where the address has to be the address of the router this machine is >> connected to. >> >> A hostname entry would be nice too but I think it will not affect this >> problem. > > > > That didn't change anything after I added the line to rc.conf. You can't just add the default router line without a bit of knowledge about what the IP address of the default router actually is. Do you know what the 192.168.0.* address for the router is? I suggested 192.168.0.1 because that is often the default, but not necessarily so. > That might be worth considering, but I don't have to do it with my > other FreeBSD machines. Can you post the result of "netstat -rn" from one of those other machines? Gary