I was trying all Friday to setup the daily snapshot of NetBSD 2.0, but no
luck for the same problem.  I tried again yesterday, but ping only
worked sometimes.  It may be a problem with the different subnets I was
in:
in our NetBSD lab, I can FTP fine from any of the computers into the
NetBSD main site.  I'm going to try it there and see how it goes.
Yasir

On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Chris Pinnock wrote:

> Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 10:30:45 +0100
> From: Chris Pinnock <cjep@fawlty.net>
> To: Yasir Malik <ymalik@cs.stevens-tech.edu>
> Cc: NetBSD mailing list <port-i386@NetBSD.org>
> Subject: Re: Sysinst not working?
>
> On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 02:01:36PM -0400, Yasir Malik wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I'm going to install NetBSD daily release of 2.0 by FTP.   In the
> > configuration process I'm able to pick up an IP address, but I can't ping
> > into our name server.  I get a message saying "Communication prohibited"
> > and all the packets were lost.  I know our name server is functional and
> > my network card is registered with the campus network.  Is this a problem
> > with sysinst?
>
> It may be that you can't ping the host due to packet filtering restrictions.
> Try proceeding with the install anyway and see what happens.
>
> Regards,
> Chris
>