Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 22:14:34 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net> To: lanehol@bellsouth.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.1 and ethernet devices Message-ID: <20001217221434.R96105@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> In-Reply-To: <000701c068b7$9fdf76a0$33b93dd0@home>; from lanehol@bellsouth.net on Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 11:59:03PM -0600 References: <000701c068b7$9fdf76a0$33b93dd0@home>
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On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 11:59:03PM -0600, lanehol@bellsouth.net wrote: > I have an existing Mac/Windows network and I want to add my FreeBSD box to > the party ... but something doesn't seem to work. And that something would be... You never really told us what is not working. Can you ping the other machines? By hostname? By IP address? If you do a tcpdump on rl0 and try to make some traffic, do you see anything? > I have assigned the FreeBSD box the ip address of 192.168.0.4 and I can ping > that address from FreeBSD as well as it's standard localhost address. That tells us your routing table is probably OK, but does not tell us anything about the actual performance of the NIC. > However I cannot see beyond the box or from Windows or Mac to the > box. "See beyond?" > The > card and cable check out fine; How did you check them out? What is your physical setup? Some CAT5 and a hub? > /etc/rc.conf has my host name > "lane.unix.home"; and /etc/hosts has an entry for each of the three boxes > ... > > On bootup the Real Tech ethernet card is identified and ifconfig -a reports > the correct ip, subnetmask and status ... Looking good/ > I'm not real familiar with unix so I'm not sure where to go next ... I did > notice that there is no device named /dev/rl0* ... could this be an issue? No. That is normal. > P.S. I'm still trying to figure out how to subscribe to this list, so if > you could point me in the right direction there, too, I'd appreciate it. Well, this, > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Might be a pretty good hint. If you still need help, http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/eresources.html#ERESOURCES-MAIL -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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