Subject: Re: Slip dialup networking
To: Matthew Willcock <mwillc@essex.ac.uk>
From: Scott Stevens <s.k.stevens@ic.ac.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 10/01/1997 10:59:49
Matthew Willcock writes:
> I'm sorry to bring up this subject again, but I am having problems with it,
> I have followed the instructions in the networking FAQ and all the config
> files look to be correctm, I use dip to dial up all goes well, untill I want
> to telnet / ftp to anywhere, I get a network unreacable error. I use demon
> and as far as I can tell the gateway is setup correctly.
>
> I have noticed that when RiscBSD boots it complains that the network is
> unusable while trying to set up the default route, should it be trying to do
> this at bootup?
Sounds like a routing problem. could you give me the output from:
netstat -rn
ifconfig sl0
and the IP address of the remote end of your link (if you know it).
> Thanks
> Matt
Cheers Scott
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