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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD ether config
Date: 13 Oct 1996 19:01:04 GMT
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In article <53lqc0$qnl@thor.atcon.com>,
Marty Cameron <martinc@atcon.com> writes:
> Ok, here's my current setup:
[.....]
> ifconfig_ed0="inet ${hostname}"
You may want to change this to "inet ${hostname} netmask 0xffffff00",
but this shouldn't matter - anything will do here if you're not 'net
connected.
> static_routes="multicast loopback ed0"
I'd change this to "loopback" only - you've got no route_ed0 - and
shouldn't need one anyway. Multicast should probably be left alone
'till you're sure you've got everything else running.
If this doesn't work, try removing the loopback string from static_routes
(so that it's empty). The only thing I can see that could be possibly
going on is that you're sending your traffic to yourself through the
loopback route.
If this doesn't work, post the output to "netstat -rn" on each machine.
Also, what does 'ping' say when it fails - or does it just hang ?
Of course, as namedflags is set to NO, you definitely aren't running
a nameserver - are you (this makes a *big* difference).
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....