Yesterday I placed an HD with Freebsd 5.3 release in a Dell Dimension
L800CXE. It booted properly. ( since it's running a generic kernel
with only a name change)
However I could not ping anything inside or outside the LAN.
Ex:
ping google.com
ping: cannot resolve google.com: Hostname lookup failure
ping 192.168.1.1
ping: sendto: No route to host
I tried several addresses inside the LAN, 127.0.0.1, localhost,
192.168.1.128, and all gave the same result.
I was previously using this HD in another machine to test IPF, with NAT
also, and it worked peerfectly there.
So just to be safe I erased the contents of /etc/rc.conf, and then used
sysinstall to bring up my NIC. I chose NO for IPv6, and YES for DHCP.
That seemed to work correctly, just to be sure I ran ifconfig:
dc0: flags=108843<UP,BROACAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTIPLY> MTU 1500
options=8<VLAN_MTU>
inet 192.168.1.128 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
ether 00:80:ad:81:1a:9f
media: Ethernat autoselect (100baseTX)
status: active
plip0: flags=108810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
Still, things are looking good; so, I go to another box, log into my
router(192.168.1.1), and I can see the MAC address of the BSD box on my
router.
However, I still get the same results when I ping as I did above.
Then I checked the routing tables:
netstat -r
Routing Tables
Internet:
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Netif Expire
default 192.168.1.1 UGS 0 6 dc0
localhost localhost UH 1
37 lo0
192.168.1 link#1 UC 0 0
dc0
192.168.1.1 00:0c:41:bd:49:7d UHLW 1 0 dc0 695
192.168.1.128 localhost UGHS 0 0 lo0
The output of netstat and ifconfig aboe are from today. I began having
this problem yesterday, and left the box on over night. Yesterday's
output was different in that the BSD box had a different IP address,
192.168.1.122. That is fine I understand that the box is communicating
with the router and negotiating leases when they expire. However, why
has the gateway to 192.168.1.1 changed from link#1 to the MAC address
of my router. I am certain that if I restart the computer that same
gateway will revert to link#1.
The my questions are:
How do I get the system to see others in the network, and vice-versa?
What should the gateway for 192.168.1.1 be?(which also happens to be my
routers address)
I am hoping it is something simple. I could just as have easily
reinstalled the system and started from scratch, but I wanted to know
how to solve this problem.
Other info that might help:
less /etc/rc.conf
ifconfig_dco="DHCP"
hostname="fw.company.com"
defaultrouter="192.168.1.1"
less /etc/resolv.conf
search carolina.rr.com
nameserver 24.25.5.60
naemserver 24.25.5.61
less /etc/hosts
::1 localhost.company.com localhost
127.0.0.1 localhost.company.com localhost
Thanks in advance
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