Wayne Barnes wrote: > 4. There is one possibly relevant fact that I have not mentioned, > yet: > sysinstall cannot see the (motherboard?) ethernet port on this Dell > 2350. As FTP connection, it only offered dialup ppp or serial, etc. So I > put in a years-old SMC1211TX ethernet PCI card, and that was recognized > easily as rl0. > > On bootup, of the FTP-installed 5.0 system, only one NIC is > recognized, as rl0, and I only plugged the old PCI card with an ethernet > cord; so I don't think this is really causing my problem. > > I can connect and conduct ssh sessions outward (that's how I am typing > now), so this machine can receive packets at all. > > I just can't telnet or ssh into it. I haven't tried to install > apache, yet, but I wouldn't expect much until an ssh or telnet probe > works. It does ping just fine, both ways.
ifconfig netstat -af inet We would also like the output of "ifconfig" or "ifconfig -a", whichever one dumps out all configured interfaces, from one of the working hosts on your network. At this point, it's likely either netmask or a bad ethernet card. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message