Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 01:47:09 -0500 (CDT) From: Eduardo Viruena Silva <mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx> To: Bsd Neophyte <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: interface woes, interface is up and has an ip assigned to it, but it cannot ping out and it can't be pinged Message-ID: <20030520014421.S99845@Gina.esfm.ipn.mx> In-Reply-To: <20030520040139.37798.qmail@web20110.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030520040139.37798.qmail@web20110.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Mon, 19 May 2003, Bsd Neophyte wrote: > alright, this problem is a bit weird. > > i rebuilt the kernel and included the parameters for the 2 AMD NIC's in > the system. now, ifconfig shows them to be pcn0 and pcn1. i assigned > them their ip addresses in rc.conf. > > now, for some reason, i cannot ping the interface from another system and > i cannot ping another system from the FreeBSD box through either of the > NIC's. i can however ping the NIC's themselves from the FreeBSD box. > > when i plug the cat5 cable into either jack and run "ifconfig" the status > changes from "no carrier" to "active". > > what further confuses me is that there is no entry for either pcn0 or pcn1 > in /dev. when i try "sh MAKEDEV pcn0" or "sh MAKEDEV pcn1" i get the > following message: > > pcn0 (or pcn1) - no such device name. > > i don't know if the two are related or unrelated. > > can anyone help me out with this one? > It can be silly but... here it goes: Are the wires connected where they are supposed to be? I mean, do you know which of your nics is pcn0 and which is pcn1 ? ... It happened to me.
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