On Monday 15 November 2004 18:22, Wes Santee wrote: > Greetings all, > > I've just completed update from 4.9 to 5.3 and so far not much is > working. I went the "format and install" route to minimize > incompatibilities. After the install, the first thing I wanted to > do was get my network up and running. > > I've got a pretty standard setup: LAN on one NIC, PPPoE Internet on > the other NIC with NAT addressing. Ignore the PPPoE and gateway > side of things for a bit, my problem is that after install, I can't > see my LAN. From the FreeBSD box I try this: > > ping -S 10.0.0.1 10.0.0.254 > > but none of the pings are responded to. From 10.0.0.254, I try > pinging 10.0.0.1, but the result is the same. > > Okay, here is the WEIRD part: When I run tcpdump to see what's > going on, all of a sudden everything starts working! It's as if > going into promiscuous mode shuts off some kind of block that I > can't figure out. When I kill tcpdump, it goes back to not working > again. > > Any ideas what is causing this or how to fix it? I strolled > through the install notes, but I don't even know what I'm looking > for. That makes searching the mailing list archives difficult > also. > > Cheers, > -Wes
The output of ifconfig may be useful in tracking down your problem -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
