Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 09:01:01 -0900 From: "Miles C" <mylasticposse@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Status: no carrier Message-ID: <F135X3cf3ednHM3SOlb0000e5d5@hotmail.com>
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I am new to this so I may not even be asking the right questions. My goal was to set up a lan within a lan to get a little bit of practice at least making firewall rules before I set up a live gateway/router with my connection to at&t. I searched the mail list archives and haven't found a mention of no carrier status for the second NIC I put into the FreeBSD box. the first is a 3com905 which is listed as xl0, the second is a FA311Netgear, listed as sis0. If I plug the ethernet cable from the existing server into one card, that card will show as being active, the other will show a status of no carrier. Doesn't matter which card, only that the cable from the server is inserted. however, I keep getting an error message from ARP trying to access one IP address which I assigned to the box and is getting a response from the wrong card. I am at work so I don't have the exact error message or I would post that. I have been working the same problem for a couple of days now, and basically I have run out of ideas. I think it probable that I haven't set up the new NIC properly, though I was very careful when it came to ifconfig to set it with a netmask and the appropriate IP for a class C address. I may be doing something that isn't really feasible as well. With the information from FreeBSDdiary.org as an example, most of the setup for a gateway has involved using an ISP with one IP and a second card the local LAN but not within the same LAN. So I am curious if what I am trying to do is really feasible. Any suggestions? Thank you in advance for any help that you can send. Miles _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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