On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 05:04:25AM +0000, bpirom@hotmail.com wrote:
> my netBSD box  can not ping from and to anothers.
> Here is the result from "ifconfig -a" on NetBSD box.
> ep0: flags=8863<UP,BRARDCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST>
> mtu 1500
>    address: 00:06:8c:18:a1:30
>   media: Ethernet 10baseT
>   inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
> 
> I use 3C509 network card(for Netbsd 1.5.1 box) link to other pc(windows98) 
> by cross UTP  (no hub).
> Netbsd ip is 192.168.1.1 and other one set 192.168.1.20 the same netmask is 
> 255.255.255.0
> but it can not ping or traceroute between ones. It can ping itself success.I 

Did you try 'ping -n' ? ping tries to resolve the host name, and if no DNS is
configured you have to wait for timeout.

Another test would be to ping from the windows machine while
running tcpdump on NetBSD to see if NetBSD sees something on the wire.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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