Hello,  > > I did the installation via FTP from a host in the LAN and everything 
> > went well. But as I now boot for the first time, I just can't get any 
> > network access. (I'm using just the same network config as sysinst, 
> > though.) I can't ping any host in the LAN, nor can I ping the 
> > problematic host from outside.
> What does 'ifconfig -a' and 'netstat -rn' report ?

# ifconfig -a ep0: 
flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500         
address: 00:20:af:35:51:d0         media: Ethernet 10base2         inet 
192.168.0.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255 lo0: 
flags=8009<UP,LOOPBACK,MULTICAST> mtu 32976         inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 
0xff000000 ppp0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 ppp1: 
flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 sl0: 
flags=c010<POINTOPOINT,LINK2,MULTICAST> mtu 296 sl1: 
flags=c010<POINTOPOINT,LINK2,MULTICAST> mtu 296 strip0: flags=0<> mtu 1100 
strip1: flags=0<> mtu 1100 tun0: flags=10<POINTOPOINT> mtu 1500 tun1: 
flags=10<POINTOPOINT> mtu 1500 gre0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1450 
gre1: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1450 ipip0: 
flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> ipip1: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> 
eon0: flags=3<UP,BROADCAST> mtu 1500 



# netstat -rn 
Routing tables 


Internet: 
Destination        Gateway            Flags     Refs     Use    Mtu  Interface 
default            192.168.0.1        UGS         0        8      -  ep0 
127.0.0.1          127.0.0.1          UH          1       30      -  lo0 
192.168            link#1             UC          0        0      -  ep0 
192.168.0.1        link#1             UHL         1        5      -  ep0 


XNS: 
Destination        Gateway            Flags     Refs     Use    Mtu  Interface 


ISO: 
Destination        Gateway            Flags     Refs     Use    Mtu  Interface 


X.25: 
Destination        Gateway            Flags     Refs     Use    Mtu  Interface 


AppleTalk: 
Destination        Gateway            Flags     Refs     Use    Mtu  Interface 



> > Another strange thing is that ping is _very_ slow. It takes about 
> > half a minute or sometimes even longer 'til I get a response from 
> > "ping 127.0.0.1". 
> May be related to the first problem, name resolution times out.

# ping -n 127.0.0.1 
This works and now it's fast. But only localhost. 


I can't see the error, there are differences between the outputs of ifconfig 
and netstat on the problematic host and another NetBSD1.4.2 machine here (which 
runs fine, with another NIC in it). 


Greets, 
Chris. 
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