On Sun, 14 Jul 2019 12:35:32 +0300, cho...@jtan.com wrote: > I have two laptops, both on the same wifi network, one with linux and one wit > h openbsd. > > I also string a cable between their ethernet ports for maximum speed which I > bring up manually at each and because I'm too lazy to automate it, that's 10. > 100.200.2/24 on linux and 10.200.200.1/24 on openbsd. > > With the other side working fine (I'd detached my openbsd laptop to take it o > ut and reattached it later) I attempted to bring up the ethernet but got the > commands wrong, and this ensued: > > drogo# pkill -f re0
I'm assuming this is to kill off any dhclient for re0? > drogo# ifconfig re0 10.100.200.1/24 # oops forgot up > drogo# ping 10.100.200.2 > PING 10.100.200.2 (10.100.200.2): 56 data bytes > ping: sendmsg: Host is down > ping: wrote 10.100.200.2 64 chars, ret=-1 I'm not sure what you are tying to do here. You haven't configured re0 with an IP address. I suspect you really wanted to run "dhclient re0" instead. - todd
