From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 29 01:56:12 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E945916A418 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:56:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bhuvaneswari.ramkumar@gmail.com) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.154]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61CA013C461 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:56:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bhuvaneswari.ramkumar@gmail.com) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 16so2170014fgg.35 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:56:10 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references:x-google-sender-auth; bh=YOjDuvc73r0JnNzPIwNZLis+1qOTB11EzgOPcn4N5MU=; b=GAeZVwjyCWNlb39qPYDAz1ErDjFwqYjxYDiWX7aj8k+TgqDZEEeuyDFyHCqnGK0POucAOEtPGxXLQwtpdiS+AnO0PbNrEV8dt1h7qdR1ZrJ4YWryn0Mzw5Iel9eLgRVNgrv8dX43npMKG9k8JrHgY4j1cTOvbi8ySjSqe64XOwk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=wvEhVy2any3ORGcBF7ZVR10joJgrkKpZq01JEtgvzS7TXyCWjrJazkAKsDGJ+P5o7ELpYGkrQ7a4y6l1JlJiycA9sTaFNo6xGkGoRO6ijw1ErjGpJW5JlYulW5cD0wyyCX3Qr3wEKFYqSuN3Dc8EUhELjHQz0fve/GuGh0oPl/8= Received: by 10.86.97.7 with SMTP id u7mr5870867fgb.54.1201571770762; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:56:10 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.86.96.13 with HTTP; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:56:10 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <7c7927920801281756j367cd0c5mba8237997389330b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:56:10 -0500 From: "Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar" Sender: bhuvaneswari.ramkumar@gmail.com To: "Alphons Fonz van Werven" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <479E6C8D.5090805@student.utwente.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <7c7927920801281329n609abb8ah63a18f1afb56099d@mail.gmail.com> <20080128214202.GO41095@hal.rescomp.berkeley.edu> <7c7927920801281518h5adfb91dta827fcae39ebc09a@mail.gmail.com> <7c7927920801281538g66f00cd5v6ebd9ff01ff3c83@mail.gmail.com> <479E6C8D.5090805@student.utwente.nl> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 55d207275ea047a4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:56:13 -0000 ifconfig -a em0: flags .......lot of data ..................... status: active ( I'm guessing this is the ethernet interface) lo0: similar stuff as em0 and my var/log/messages has a lot of data in it, I dont know if I'm identifying a boot message accurately but there is a line that specifies the location of a kernel boot file as /boot/kernel.............I dont know if this is just default message present here On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 7:00 PM, Alphons Fonz van Werven < a.j.werven@student.utwente.nl> wrote: > Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar wrote: > > > I'm guessing it does detect the interface, network-device & all that, > bcos > > my ifconfig says the ethernet status is active. But still I'm unable to > do > > any kind of networking at all, even pings from other PCs to this one > remain > > unreachable. I'm wondering if I should configure something else in the > > sysinstall or the rc.conf file. > > Hehe. Network problem solving often seems more about magic than about > logic... > > Anyway, for starters, can you send me the output of ifconfig -a? > Also, if your NIC got detected, there should be some boot messages in > /var/log/messages. You might want to check on that. > > Alphons > > -- > VISTA - Viruses Intruders Spyware Trojans Adware > >