From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 5 07:59:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA28551 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 5 May 1998 07:59:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail1.toronto.istar.net (Mail1.Toronto.iSTAR.net [209.89.75.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA28544 for ; Tue, 5 May 1998 07:59:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from murad@magi.com) Received: from ts6-05.tor.istar.ca (mypc) [204.191.151.148] by mail1.toronto.istar.net with smtp (Exim 1.80 #5) id 0yWjGB-0002Qx-00; Tue, 5 May 1998 11:03:59 -0400 X-Sender: murad@magi.com (Unverified) X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Doug White From: Murad Subject: Re: Networking Problems Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-Id: Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 11:03:59 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> On both networks everything seems to boot okay but on the 172 I always get >> 'host is down' when I try to ping from my box. I also can't ping my box >> from others on the 172. > >bad routing, definitely. > > >> defaultrouter="172.18.0.36" # Set to default gateway (or NO). > > >> gateway_enable="YES" # Set to YES if this host will be a gateway. > >This doesn't need to be set. > >> pccard_ether="ed0 ep0 fe0 sn0" # Pccard ethernet interfaces (or NO). >> ifconfig_common="inet 172.18.0.202 netmask 255.255.0.0" > >This is correct? You're rebooting when you flip rc.conf? Yes, I'm rebooting (also tried powering down). My guess would be the problem is somewhere here: I don't think there is a real gateway for this network. I think I should be able to access the others directly from mine. How should this affect my setup? Depending on what I try, I also sometimes get /kernal: arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo for 172.18.0.2. What does this mean? I tried playing with -iface and -llinfo options in route but didn't seem to help/I didn't use them the right way. The route man pages say: If the destination is directly reachable via an interface requiring no intermediary system to act as a gateway, the "-interface" modifier should be specified; the gateway given is the address of this host on the common network, indicating the interface to be used for transmission. Is this the correct syntax: route add -net 172.18.0.0 -interface 172.18.0.202 ? Assuming the interface comes up properly, should that mean I should be able to ping my box from another (even if there is a problem with my routing)? >> I can access the 172 with Win95 but not FreeBSD. I tried playing with the >> "gateway-enable" option because I believe the 172 network doesn't have a >> 'proper gateway'. > >No, gateway routes packets between interfaces. > >> I'm having networking problems and I'm stumped. I think it's probably >> something straightforward that I'm missing but I'm out of ideas. >> >> I have a laptop that I can connect on one network without a problem so I >> think the ethernet card is setup okay. >> >> I can't seem to get it working on the other network (which is of course the >> one I really want :) I hope someone can help me out. >> >> I'm using FreeBSD 2.2.5 with PAO installed. ep0 driver for a 3COM589D >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message