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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!cuhknntp!hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!not-for-mail From: j@interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: help with setting up a FreeBSD network Date: 23 Oct 1995 14:46:47 +0100 Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <46g6c7$6tt@ida.interface-business.de> References: <3087AA4D.42FA@i3105m2f.hp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de (This has been in the BSDI newsgroup, which was wrong.) Steve Kruzich <srk@i3105m2f.hp.com> wrote: >I have a Pentium 90 and a 486-66 system using NE2000 network cards. >Network cards are configured for irq 15, port 260 and address of d8000. > >Right now each machine is able to telnet to itself, that tells me that >the cards are configured and working right, but I cannot find any info >on how to get them to talk to each other. Telnet to myself doesn't require a network card. It's usually done by an explicit route via the loopback interface (127.0.0.1), instead of being passed to the ethernet driver. Make sure your cards are being configured right. Tell us more about your setup. -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de [private: http://www.sax.de/~joerg/]