And the answer is: NO, at least in my case.
Problem solved. I am sending this for the benefit of any other newbee like me
having the same problem.
Problem description:
* have two machines connected to the Internet through a cable/DSL router.
* One of them is running a freshly install
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From: "Daniel Inzirillo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 9:59 PM
Subject: Can't get to Internet - Tinker with /etc/hosts?
> I have two machines connected to a router using DHCP.
> One is a f
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 10:59:07PM -0400, Daniel Inzirillo wrote:
> I have two machines connected to a router using DHCP.
> One is a freshly installed FreeBSD 4.7, the other one runs Linux.
> They can ping each other.
> I can access the Internet from the Linux machine, but not from FreeBSD.
> On st
