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From: phil@zipmail.co.uk (Phil Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Network Help for FreeBSD <please>
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 13:14:39 GMT
Organization: Lan Systems
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roy@adeptsolutions.com (Roy Lovejoy) wrote:

>Had my little pc humming away nicely, all set up, I could telnet from my
>macs to it, quite cool..

Which version of FreeBSD ?????

>Tried (operative word) to install CAP so I could print to DeskJet.
>Needless to say, I now have a VERY virgin install of FreeBSD on my
>machine, and for the life of me, can't recall the steps to get the machine
>to 'see' the net and to get the net to 'see' the FreeBSD machine.

>Last lines of boot sequence:

>writing to routing socket: Network is unreachable
>add net 224.0.0.0: gateway free.adeptsolutions.com: Network is unreachable

>I've done the /etc/hosts thing, the /etc/namedb/* thing, nothing!

Can you give a bit more info re what you have put in /etc/hosts etc ??

That shouldn't make any difference however, it is more likely to be a
problem in /etc/sysconfig.

The default gateway needs to be specified as an IP address (not its
name) at the point of configuring the network, it probably doesn't
know what free.adeptsolutions.com is !!!!!!!!

>I can't even ping it from my NeXT.

Is your NeXT on the same network ??? (I assume not if your macs can
telnet into the FBSD machine)

>Please help! 

Ill certainly try ....

>Second Question: where is the ip address stored?

All of the config is stored in /etc/sysconfig (FreeBSD 2.0.5R and
later)

Phil Taylor
phil@zipmail.co.uk

>Thanks.

>Please post && e-mail all suggestions.

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