Re: Network connectivity between FreeBSD and Linux

In response to Arindam <arindam.mukerjee@xxxxxxxxx>:

[snip]

From the FreeBSD box, can you ping the loopback address: 127.0.0.1, if
so, can you ping your ip address: 10.0.0.101. If so, can you ping your
gateway? Did you set a gateway in /etc/rc.conf?

loopback: Yes I can ping it.

10.0.0.101: Yes again I can ping it. But I set this as the gateway. I
just got two home PCs connected to each other over a 5-port switch
with. 10.0.0.100 and 10.0.0.101 (this one). I set this as the gateway
because a while later when I hook this to the web, this will be the
box. And I might add a couple of more boxes to this network at best.

Don't do that. It may be the cause of your problem -- in any case,
it's incorrect. Leave the system without a gateway if you don't have
one.

I did not set a gateway in /etc/rc.conf. I configured the whole thing
using sysinstall and a couple of times after that using ifconfig (ip
addr and netmask).

If you did it via sysinstall, then it was written to rc.conf.

defaultrouter="your gateway ip address" # Set to default
gateway (or NO).

But I guess whatever the method, such an entry would have been written
to rc.conf.

Yes.

--
Bill Moran
Collaborative Fusion Inc.
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