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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!arg1.demon.co.uk!arg-home5.net-tel.co.uk!nobody From: Andrew Gordon <andrew.gordon@net-tel.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Mini-Network ?'s Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 15:21:31 +0000 Message-ID: <330B1A7B.167EB0E7@net-tel.co.uk> References: <5dbio1$91b$1@nntp2.ba.best.com> <5dst9j$e5j@news.cc.utah.edu> <seth-1902970012100001@seth.leigh> NNTP-Posting-Host: arg1.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: arg1.demon.co.uk X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-BETA_A i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 36 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35762 Seth Leigh wrote: > > Yeah, but it can be a bitch if you make assumptions, like that the card > automatically listens to either the coax _or_ the twisted pair jack, and > it doesn't. I spent two good, whole evenings (till 1-2 AM or so) trying to > get my machines to talk to each other, till I finally discovered that when > I unhooked my FreeBSD machine from my brother's twisted pair network, and > hooked it up via coax to my Macintosh, the network card in the FreeBSD box > wouldn't talk. I had to boot up the FreeBSD box off of a DOS floppy boot > disk (FreeBSD is the only OS on the hard drive) and run a program called > softset to tell the card to listen to the coax jack. > You don't say what sort of net card this is, but probably you could have used the "link0"/"link1" options to ifconfig instead. > The default routed options in the /etc/sysconfig file have routed > broadcast its routing info every 30 seconds. If you don't change this > option (either from -s to -q, or from -q to -s, I forget which), your > modem connection will NEVER time out, which is bad if, like me, you have > only one phone line in your house. Or disable routed altogether. > I still have problems where when the modem first dials up, I can't log in > via telnet from my mac (which is my only access method, as I have no > monitor on the FreeBSD box at the moment). I get to the username > password, I type it in, the system does a linefeed, and just sits there. > After a couple of minutes I can try logging in again and it will work. > This is a big pain in the butt. It is probably trying to look up the IP address of the Mac in the DNS. Do you have all your local machines in /etc/hosts, and the lookup order set to 'hosts first' in /etc/host.conf?