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From: j@interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: help with setting up a FreeBSD network
Date: 23 Oct 1995 14:46:47 +0100
Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden
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(This has been in the BSDI newsgroup, which was wrong.)

Steve Kruzich  <srk@i3105m2f.hp.com> wrote:

>I have a Pentium 90 and a 486-66 system using NE2000 network cards.
>Network cards are configured for  irq 15, port 260 and address of d8000.
>
>Right now each machine is able to telnet to itself, that tells me that
>the cards are configured and working right, but I cannot find any info
>on how to get them to talk to each other.

Telnet to myself doesn't require a network card.  It's usually done by
an explicit route via the loopback interface (127.0.0.1), instead of
being passed to the ethernet driver.

Make sure your cards are being configured right.  Tell us more about
your setup.
-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de
					[private: http://www.sax.de/~joerg/]