Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:05:00 -0800 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: derek@computinginnovations.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD Message-ID: <479eb3fc.XaySZrS3Bv99YOz6%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20080128175226.024f3e50@mail.computinginnovations.com> References: <7c7927920801281329n609abb8ah63a18f1afb56099d@mail.gmail.com> <20080128214202.GO41095@hal.rescomp.berkeley.edu> <7c7927920801281518h5adfb91dta827fcae39ebc09a@mail.gmail.com> <7c7927920801281538g66f00cd5v6ebd9ff01ff3c83@mail.gmail.com> <6.0.0.22.2.20080128175226.024f3e50@mail.computinginnovations.com>
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> You need to set the default gateway in /etc/rc.conf. Without a > default gateway, you will need to add a default route with the > route command. > > Without a route your machine will only be able to ping itself. Unless something has changed dramatically -- and fairly recently -- a machine that knows its own IP address and netmask should be able to ping anything on the same subnet as itself (an interface being implicitly a route to any other IP address on the same subnet).
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