cannot ping anything

[Derek Ragona]

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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