Network connectivity between FreeBSD and Linux

[Bill Moran]

In response to Arindam <arindam.mukerjee at gmail.com>:

[snip]

> > >From the FreeBSD box, can you ping the loopback address: 127.0.0.1, if
> > so, can you ping your ip address:  10.0.0.101.  If so, can you ping your
> > gateway?  Did you set a gateway in /etc/rc.conf?
> 
> loopback: Yes I can ping it.
> 
> 10.0.0.101: Yes again I can ping it. But I set this as the gateway. I
> just got two home PCs connected to each other over a 5-port switch
> with. 10.0.0.100 and 10.0.0.101 (this one). I set this as the gateway
> because a while later when I hook this to the web, this will be the
> box. And I might add a couple of more boxes to this network at best.

Don't do that.  It may be the cause of your problem -- in any case,
it's incorrect.  Leave the system without a gateway if you don't have
one.

> I did not set a gateway in /etc/rc.conf. I configured the whole thing
> using sysinstall and a couple of times after that using ifconfig (ip
> addr and netmask).

If you did it via sysinstall, then it was written to rc.conf.

> > defaultrouter="your gateway ip address"              # Set to default
> > gateway (or NO).
> 
> But I guess whatever the method, such an entry would have been written
> to rc.conf.

Yes.

-- 
Bill Moran
Collaborative Fusion Inc.