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From: marat@Glue.umd.edu (Marat Fayzullin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.2-RELEASE + PLIP = problem
Date: 22 Mar 1997 02:15:03 GMT
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Brian Somers (brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org) wrote:
: And should have done last time.... does this happen if you just ping
: with just IP numbers too ?  It's possible that there's a DNS problem
: - unrelated to the routing issue.  If you just use ping and IP numbers
: rather than machine names, step 6. should work first time.
Name or IP numbers, it doesn't care.

: Can you "draw" what's going on (in ascii) ?  ie. what are the IP
: numbers and netmasks of each machine.  It may be that the laptop
: has an IP number that's part of the network that the other machines
: share - this should not work.....
Mhm...That is true: both sides of PLIP link (gateway and laptop) have IP
numbers from the same domain as all the ethernetted machines (including
the router). I did try it with numbers from a different domain, but it
didn't work either (although the circumstances were different from
described in the last post).

I'm going to experiment with this stuff on Monday though, and try to
figure out what exactly is wrong.