Network connectivity between FreeBSD and Linux

[Garrett Cooper]

On Sep 14, 2006, at 7:49 PM, Arindam wrote:

> I have FreeBSD 6.1 installed on one machine and Fedora Core 2 on
> another. I dual boot the FreeBSD 6.1 machine with a RedHat EL 4.3
> installation. I have assigned the same static IP address and hostname
> to this machine for both the FreeBSD and RHEL installations.
>
> While my RHEL installation is running, I am able to communicate with
> the FC2 installation over the network. When FreeBSD is running, all
> pings from either side fail. I have no clue if I need to look at some
> special configuration, or is it a problem with the basics.
>
> Wond'ring what to do.
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
> --

/sbin/ifconfig output? Also, do you happen to have a firewall in your  
FreeBSD OS setup :)?
-Garrett