cannot ping anything

[Alvaro J. Gurdián]

thanks, but the defaultrouter line was already present in my 
/etc/rc.conf.

On Jan 20, 2006, at 1:32 PM, Derek Ragona wrote:

> Check your /etc/rc.conf for this line:
> defaultrouter="192.168.1.1"
>
> add it and reboot if it is missing
>
>         -Derek
>
>
> At 12:26 PM 1/20/2006, Alvaro J. Gurdián wrote:
>> 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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