Re: Can't connect to the internet

ogautherot_at_freesurf.fr
Date: 07/28/04

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    Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 12:53:37 +0200 (CEST)
To: <sandboxpro@yahoo.com>

    Hi there!

    Welcome to FreeBSD! Just to cover my a... beware that
    technical questions should be sent to
    freebsd-questions@freebsd.org. I think this one is borderline
    but anyway...

    > I'm can't connect to the internet. I have my computer
    > connected to a router via NIC. the lights on the
    > router are lit and so are the lights on the NIC. Thus,
    > I know i have a connection. I tried ping -c 10
    > 192.168.1.1 and all i got was
    > ping: sendto: No route host

    The best is to check how your NIC card is configured:

        ifconfig -a

    It should indicate what card type you're using and how the
    network is initialized. See the man page, which is well
    detailed.

    What router are you using? Like a Linux or Windows machine
    or is it an "embedded" router (one of thoses boxes that
    connect to an ADSL line on one end and share it with 4 or 8
    computers)? Without this info, it is difficult to get you
    started.

    > I can't seem to find a simple to tutorial on this
    > specific problem of just connecting to the internet
    > through a router. I have found how to make your pc a
    > router and connecting via serial cables and modems,
    > but this is different.

    To make your PC a router, you need to have an Internet
    access in the first place, that's right :-) Basically,
    it should be "plug-and-play".

    My first advice would be to configure FreeBSD as a DHCP
    client and let the router do the config for you. When I first
    installed FreeBSD, my wife was using our connection on a
    Windows PC and, by the time the install finished and I could
    log in, FreeBSD was already online: ping, portinstall, mozilla,
    etc. worked flawlessly.

    Let us have more details about your LAN if this does not help.

    Cheerio
      Olivier

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