Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD

2008-01-30 Thread Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar
I did have an IP address assigned to my ethernet interface( using the ifconfig command) but I'm unable to ping anybody in my LAN. On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 10:38 AM, आशीष Ashish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ,--[ On Tuesday 29 Jan 2008, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: | On 2008-01-28 21:03, Bhuvaneswari

Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD

2008-01-30 Thread आशीष Ashish
,--[ On Wednesday 30 Jan 2008, Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar wrote: | I did have an IP address assigned to my ethernet interface( using the | ifconfig command) but I'm unable to ping anybody in my LAN. In the 'ifconfig -a' output you posted earlier, the 'em0' (your desired interface) interface neither

Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD

2008-01-30 Thread Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar
ifconfig em0 up also doesnt help ping my LAN. the ifconfig -a output now reads the IP I just added, as well as the net-mask the 100 Mbps active linnk. quick question : I did an ifconfig em0 1.1.1.2 yday.should this be done everytime I restart my application, is it some kind of a temporary

Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD

2008-01-30 Thread Alphons Fonz van Werven
Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar wrote: I did an ifconfig em0 1.1.1.2 yday.should this be done everytime I restart my application, is it some kind of a temporary address assignment, bcos whatever I assigned was not visible today when I re-booted and I had to do it again, probably I should set this in the

Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD

2008-01-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 12:19:33PM -0500, Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar wrote: ifconfig em0 up also doesnt help ping my LAN. the ifconfig -a output now reads the IP I just added, as well as the net-mask the 100 Mbps active linnk. quick question : I did an ifconfig em0 1.1.1.2 yday.should

Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD

2008-01-30 Thread Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar
with the above assigned IP address and net-mask I'm reading to make it work and ping my LAN successfully ( which it doesn't now) before I put them in the rc.conf script. On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 12:19:33PM -0500,

Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD

2008-01-30 Thread Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar
Is it a cause of concern if I dont have any route marked as default ? I see so when i use the netstat command On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: with the above assigned IP address and net-mask I'm reading to make it work and ping my LAN

Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD

2008-01-30 Thread Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar
An explicit call to /etc/netstart tells me that the route devd with their pids are already running - though I dont know if this takes into account the new chages I've done restarts the network. On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it a cause of

Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD

2008-01-30 Thread Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar
ok the local LAN ping works now On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 1:52 PM, आशीष Ashish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ,--[ On Wednesday 30 Jan 2008, Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar wrote: | with the above assigned IP address and net-mask I'm reading to make it work | and ping my LAN successfully ( which it doesn't

Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD

2008-01-30 Thread आशीष Ashish
,--[ On Wednesday 30 Jan 2008, Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar wrote: | with the above assigned IP address and net-mask I'm reading to make it work | and ping my LAN successfully ( which it doesn't now) before I put them in | the rc.conf script. BtW, what is your network prefix and subnet mask ? Also

Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD

2008-01-30 Thread Reid Linnemann
Written by Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar on 01/30/08 13:02 ok the local LAN ping works now FYI, the handbook is very helpful. (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config-network-setup.html) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD

2008-01-30 Thread Michael Ross
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:35:03 +0100, Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An explicit call to /etc/netstart tells me that the route devd with their pids are already running - though I dont know if this takes into account the new chages I've done restarts the network. Try

Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD

2008-01-30 Thread Alphons Fonz van Werven
Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar wrote: ok the local LAN ping works now At the risk of being obvious: please be so smart as to write down the settings (and try to understand exactly why they are the way they are) so you don't have to reinvent the wheel next time around. Alphons -- VISTA - Viruses

Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD

2008-01-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 12:57:59PM -0500, Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar wrote: with the above assigned IP address and net-mask I'm reading to make it work and ping my LAN successfully ( which it doesn't now) before I put them in the rc.conf script. I am not quite sure what you are asking here, but

Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD

2008-01-30 Thread Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar
oh yes, I did use the right IP, netmask and interface to be configured. Now thankfully the LAN pings work, the thing I have to find out now is how to make ftp work which still keeps saying that hostname or servname not known Thanks a lot Bhuvana On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Jerry McAllister

Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD

2008-01-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 12:57:59PM -0500, Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar wrote: with the above assigned IP address and net-mask I'm reading to make it work and ping my LAN successfully ( which it doesn't now) before I put them in the rc.conf script. I should mention that the line changes if you are

Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD

2008-01-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 01:35:03PM -0500, Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar wrote: An explicit call to /etc/netstart tells me that the route devd with their pids are already running - though I dont know if this takes into account the new chages I've done restarts the network. You will have to do a

Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD

2008-01-30 Thread Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar
strangely my /etc has no resolv.conf file at all ! On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 01:01:18PM -0500, Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar wrote: Is it a cause of concern if I dont have any route marked as default ? I see so when i use the

Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD

2008-01-30 Thread KAYVEN RIESE
i got my ISP's IP address from some webpage. i am at home running DSL here is what my file looks like kv_bsd# kv_bsd# cat /etc/resolv.conf nameserver 192.168.0.1 kv_bsd# i just had to create that file On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar wrote: strangely my /etc has no

Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD

2008-01-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 01:01:18PM -0500, Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar wrote: Is it a cause of concern if I dont have any route marked as default ? I see so when i use the netstat command Yes. You need a default router specified because that is the address that becomes your gateway to the rest of

Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD

2008-01-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 03:09:00PM -0500, Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar wrote: strangely my /etc has no resolv.conf file at all ! It will only have one if you make one by setting up networking. sysinstall makes one if you set up a static IP. I think DHCP makes it if you do dynamic, but I don't have

Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD

2008-01-30 Thread Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar
no mine is not dynamic and I have the resolv.conf file set-up. It works fine now. I had some issues with FTP ing and some address conflict message for ssh/tcp. I sysinstalled and disabled SSH there, I guess probably cos inetd takes care of it and ftp also works fine now, i guess after etc/rc.conf

Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD

2008-01-30 Thread Alphons Fonz van Werven
Jerry McAllister wrote: [/etc/resolv.conf] I think DHCP makes it if you do dynamic It did so in 6.1-RELEASE and it's not likely that this has changed. In fact, I had to explicitly config DHCP to not overwrite my resolv.conf (because I wanted my own DNS server to be queried before the ISP's).

Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD

2008-01-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2008-01-30 22:07, Alphons Fonz van Werven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: [/etc/resolv.conf] I think DHCP makes it if you do dynamic It did so in 6.1-RELEASE and it's not likely that this has changed. In fact, I had to explicitly config DHCP to not overwrite my

Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD

2008-01-30 Thread Alphons Fonz van Werven
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: [ in dhclient.conf ] interface ath0 { prepend domain-name-servers 196.168.1.1; } Neat. I used another workaround (don't remember exactly what) back then, but this sure looks tidier. Something to remember... Alphons -- VISTA -

Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD

2008-01-29 Thread आशीष Ashish
,--[ On Tuesday 29 Jan 2008, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: | On 2008-01-28 21:03, Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] | Hmmm. There seems to be something very 'odd' about your interfaces. | | * There is no `lo0' loopback interface, which commonly uses the | 127.0.0.1

Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD

2008-01-28 Thread Nerius Landys
I'm a newbie FreeBSD user, I've just installed the 5.5 version. I know this is a very silly question but I've searched the archives and any suggestions are welcome. I think my system is not connected to the internet or any external network, ping dosent work ( nor ftp or dig) When I try

Network configuration in FreeBSD

2008-01-28 Thread Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar
Hi, I'm a newbie FreeBSD user, I've just installed the 5.5 version. I know this is a very silly question but I've searched the archives and any suggestions are welcome. I think my system is not connected to the internet or any external network, ping dosent work ( nor ftp or dig) When I try to

Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD

2008-01-28 Thread Christopher Cowart
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 04:29:49PM -0500, Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar wrote: I'm a newbie FreeBSD user, I've just installed the 5.5 version. I know this is a very silly question but I've searched the archives and any suggestions are welcome. I think my system is not connected to the internet or

Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD

2008-01-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 04:29:49PM -0500, Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar wrote: Hi, I'm a newbie FreeBSD user, I've just installed the 5.5 version. I know this is a very silly question but I've searched the archives and any suggestions are welcome. I think my system is not connected to the

Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD

2008-01-28 Thread Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar
ifconfig -a em0: flags ...lot of data . status: active ( I'm guessing this is the ethernet interface) netstat -rn routing tables: Internet : 127.0.0.1 ..followed by some IPs, flags(UH), etc .. Internet6 expire followed by some hex-values and flags would this do or

Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD

2008-01-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I'm a newbie FreeBSD user, I've just installed the 5.5 version. I know this is a very silly question but I've searched the archives and any suggestions are welcome. RTFM begin with /usr/share/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/handbook.txt (or html what you prefer)

Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD

2008-01-28 Thread Brian
Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar wrote: Hi, I'm a newbie FreeBSD user, I've just installed the 5.5 version. I know this is a very silly question but I've searched the archives and any suggestions are welcome. I think my system is not connected to the internet or any external network, ping dosent work (

Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD

2008-01-28 Thread Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar
I'm guessing it does detect the interface, network-device all that, bcos my ifconfig says the ethernet status is active. But still I'm unable to do any kind of networking at all, even pings from other PCs to this one remain unreachable. I'm wondering if I should configure something else in the

Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD

2008-01-28 Thread Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar
I configured the ethernet interface in the post-install config with my IP and net-mask, though I didnt know the gateway then. It gave me a warning that I might not be able to access remote machines, but that still dosent explain why it wont even ping the next node in my LAN. The rc.conf file does

Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD

2008-01-28 Thread Derek Ragona
At 05:38 PM 1/28/2008, Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar wrote: I'm guessing it does detect the interface, network-device all that, bcos my ifconfig says the ethernet status is active. But still I'm unable to do any kind of networking at all, even pings from other PCs to this one remain unreachable. I'm

Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD

2008-01-28 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2008-01-28 18:18, Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Christopher Cowart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Send the list the output of the following commands: # ifconfig -a # netstat -rn With that info, we can probably help you out better.

Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD

2008-01-28 Thread Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar
ifconfig -a em0: flags ...lot of data . status: active ( I'm guessing this is the ethernet interface) lo0: similar stuff as em0 and my var/log/messages has a lot of data in it, I dont know if I'm identifying a boot message accurately but there is a line that specifies

Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD

2008-01-28 Thread Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar
ok here u go, the exact output of the the commands: #ifconfig -a em0: flags=8802BROADCAST, SIMPLEX, MULTICAST mtu 1500 options=bRXSCUM, TXSCUM, VLAN_MTU ether :0d:56:f0:f1:ba media:Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex) status: active plip0:flags=108810POINTTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu

Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD

2008-01-28 Thread Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar
the netstat reads: #netstat -nr Routing tables Internet: Destination Gateway Flags REfs Use Netif Expire 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH041 lo0 Internet 6 Destination Gateway Flags Netif Expire ::1::1 UH

Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD

2008-01-28 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2008-01-28 21:03, Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok here u go, the exact output of the the commands: Excellent! Thank you :-) #ifconfig -a em0: flags=8802BROADCAST, SIMPLEX, MULTICAST mtu 1500 options=bRXSCUM, TXSCUM, VLAN_MTU ether :0d:56:f0:f1:ba media:Ethernet

Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD

2008-01-28 Thread Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar
Giorgos, Thanks a lot for the excellent reply, yes I do have some questions about this but before that: the unplumb operation for pilp0 doesnt work. ifconfig: SIOCIFDESTROY: Invalid argument is the message I get for this. Sincerely, Bhuvana On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 9:37 PM, Giorgos Keramidas

Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD

2008-01-28 Thread Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar
ok down works but delete dosent I guess the 1st one is for disabling the plip interface and the second for completely removing it , or let me know if I'm getting this wrong here. ifconfig: 10ctl(SIOCDIFADDR) : cant assign requested address is this bcos of the down I did before this command ?

Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD

2008-01-28 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2008-01-28 22:33, Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos, Thanks a lot for the excellent reply, yes I do have some questions about this but before that: the unplumb operation for pilp0 doesnt work. ifconfig: SIOCIFDESTROY: Invalid argument is the message I get for

Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD

2008-01-28 Thread perryh
You need to set the default gateway in /etc/rc.conf. Without a default gateway, you will need to add a default route with the route command. Without a route your machine will only be able to ping itself. Unless something has changed dramatically -- and fairly recently -- a machine that

Network configuration in FreeBSD

2004-07-08 Thread Miguel Cardenas
Hello Am new to FreeBSD... just installed it for 2nd time today, but don't know what I did that it didn't ask me for the network configuration (ip, domain, etc)... once installed, is there a command to perform that task? I'm linux user, so am familiar to *nix systems, but don't know how to

Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD

2004-07-08 Thread uidzero
Miguel Cardenas wrote: Hello Am new to FreeBSD... just installed it for 2nd time today, but don't know what I did that it didn't ask me for the network configuration (ip, domain, etc)... once installed, is there a command to perform that task? I'm linux user, so am familiar to *nix systems, but

Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD

2004-07-08 Thread Kjell Midtseter
On 8 Jul 2004 at 1:52, Miguel Cardenas wrote: Hello Am new to FreeBSD... just installed it for 2nd time today, but don't know what I did that it didn't ask me for the network configuration (ip, domain, When you got to the HD partitioning in the beginning of setup you should have deleted

Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD

2004-07-08 Thread Aaron Walker
Miguel Cardenas wrote: Hello Am new to FreeBSD... just installed it for 2nd time today, but don't know what I did that it didn't ask me for the network configuration (ip, domain, etc)... once installed, is there a command to perform that task? I'm linux user, so am familiar to *nix systems, but

Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD

2004-07-08 Thread Steve Bertrand
Am new to FreeBSD... just installed it for 2nd time today, but don't know what I did that it didn't ask me for the network configuration (ip, domain, etc)... once installed, is there a command to perform that task? I'm linux user, so am familiar to *nix systems, but don't know how to