Date: 16 Nov 1997 19:31:42 +0100 From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav) To: StRiKeN@bigfoot.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Networking Message-ID: <xzpd8k0bshd.fsf@gjallarhorn.ifi.uio.no> In-Reply-To: StRiKeN@bigfoot.com's message of Sat, 15 Nov 1997 23:07:15 -0500 References: <3.0.32.19971115230703.00696954@mail.geocities.com>
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StRiKeN@bigfoot.com writes:
> I try to ping client and nothing.
>
> try to ping self at Ip 234.234.234.1 and nothing.
>
> ping at 127.0.0.0 and get all packet s back
>
> my nics are being detected fine on boot up and my hub says that both
> systems are connecting to hub... Is there any words of wisdom that
> maybe helpful?
It'd be easier to help you if you provided all the relevant
information, such as:
- 'dmesg' output (at least the NIC part)
- ifconfig settings from /etc/sysconfig or /etc/rc.conf
- 'ifconfig -au' output
- contents of /etc/hosts, /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/host.conf
Also, the IP address you are using is in the multicast range, which is
hardly what you want. You may choose IP addresses in the following
ranges (from RFC1918 "Address Allocation for Private Internets",
section 3 "Private Address Space"):
The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has reserved the
following three blocks of the IP address space for private internets:
10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255 (10/8 prefix)
172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255 (172.16/12 prefix)
192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255 (192.168/16 prefix)
(end quote)
Appropriate subnetnet masks can be deduced from the prefixes.
The most commonly used address range for a small LAN such as yours is
10.0.0.0 - 10.0.0.255 with a netmask of 0xffffff00.
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