From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 29 11:20:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA24559 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 11:20:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts17-line3.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.220]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA24553 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 11:20:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA00461; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 11:20:14 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 11:20:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: "Jay E. Erickson" cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: TCP/IP config help? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Jay E. Erickson wrote: > On Tue, 27 Aug 1996, Doug White wrote: > > My box responds only to UDP not TCP > I'm running a 3com 3c509 but I'm going to try a SMC as soon as I can > scrounge one up. > It's a DFI P66/100 PCI motherboard with a NCR scsi 2G hard drive & CD > It's main uses are primary DNS server and web server. (when it's running) > I just loaded FreeBSD 2.1.5 off walnut creeks CD. > If I can't get it working by the end of the week I'm going back to Linux. > > > What do you get when you try to ping it? > > I get no response. > sometimes when i try to ping out from it I get a reponse BUT > with a high packet loss (92%) and a very long response time 101670.203 ms What are the settings for the 3c509, both in FreeBSD and in 3c5x9cfg.exe? Have you checked the machine's network cable? (sorry if i"m being redundant, I've forgotten what we've tried) > > > Does anyone know what the /24 means on the first link line ? > > > > I believe it has to do with the subnet. I think it means that the > > addresses 0-24 should be routed here. > > I don't think so. > I changed it's address to 132.10.1.254 and it still reports 132.10.1/24 I'm not sure. If it's working okay then I'd leave it alone. You can try deleting it: route delete 132.10.1 Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major