No route to host

Luke Kearney lukek at meibin.net
Sun Nov 9 06:54:58 PST 2003


On Sun, 09 Nov 2003 09:49:54 -0500
Marty Landman <MLandman at face2interface.com> granted us these pearls of wisdom:

> At 03:00 AM 11/9/2003, you wrote:
> 
> >If the correct information is not there then something like
> >
> ># route add default -interface ep0
> 
> Ok I did this (there's no router). Now I can still ping my own ip and 
> localhost as before and when I try pinging another node on the lan it seems 
> to hang, i.e.
> 
> PING 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1): 56 data bytes
> 
> until ^c out of it.
> 
> Ok so I let it sit like that for a couple of minutes and after interrupting 
> it got back
> 
> 600 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
> 
> >If you can see the correct routing information the next likely culprit
> >is the firewall. Try turning off the firewall for starters.
> 
> #ipfw disable firewall
> #ping 192.168.0.1
> ^C
> 7 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
> #
> 
> Hmm, any other ideas?
> 
> Marty Landman   Face 2 Interface Inc 845-679-9387
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please make a rough ascii sketch of your network and post the output to
the following :- 

netstat -rn
ifconfig -a

in your rc.conf

firewall_enable="yes"


HTH

LukeK



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