Re: Mac can't connect to Internet
I pulled the 'nameserver' addresses from /etc/resolv.conf. That seems to fix it. Thanks! W. Tony M. wrote: It sounds like you don't have the DNS entries correct on the Mac. Make sure to set up your Name Server Entries in your tcp/ip control panel. Tony But, after several minutes I clicked to check my e-mail and got an error saying it could find the mail server. I went back to the newsgroup to now get a similar can't find the server error. I could still ping the world. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Mac can't connect to Internet
Hi, I was wondering what the resolution was to this, as I (a *nix newbie) am trying to accomplish a very similar thing: OS 10.1 via hub to a Pentium running FBSD 4.6.2 to a cable-modem internet connection. I can't get past the FBSD box from the Mac though the FBSD box can see the internet just fine. (The firewall is disabled. And I can ping, telnet, FTP from the Mac to FBSD just fine.) Thanks. Walter Alex wrote: Friday, October 18, 2002, 6:31:35 PM, you wrote: snip I added a Powerbook, OS X, to the local network, configured /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf. PB can ping the other boxes ok, but can't see the Internet. The other boxes can ping the PB ok. Looks like a firewall problem. If I connect the PB to the cable modem directly, the PB connects ok. snip Is the mac able to use the internet without the firewall? (Remove the firewall lines from rc.conf with '#' and try loading the GENERIC kernel at the kernel prompt). If so reboot and change the *deny/block/ect* line of the firewall and add the 'log' keyword(man ipfw to find out how to use this) to each of them. Check /var/log/security if you can see the mac being blocked by your firewall. (It will tell you what rule blocked your mac). I hope this is helpful, if not send me the output of 'ipfw s' and 'tail -n 100 /var/log/security' and i'll take a look. What am I doing wrong? Thanks. Michael Heyes To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Mac can't connect to Internet
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Walter wrote: Hi, I was wondering what the resolution was to this, as I (a *nix newbie) am trying to accomplish a very similar thing: OS 10.1 via hub to a Pentium running FBSD 4.6.2 to a cable-modem internet connection. I can't get past the FBSD box from the Mac though the FBSD box can see the internet just fine. (The firewall is disabled. And I can ping, telnet, FTP from the Mac to FBSD just fine.) Thanks. Walter Two things: - Is the FreeBSD box set to act as a router (packet forwarding on)? If another machine behind the BSD box can connect to the Internet it would answer that question. - Is the FreeBSD box set as the default router in the OS X box' settings? KeS To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Mac can't connect to Internet
On Tuesday 22 October 2002 01:24 pm, Kevin Stevens wrote: Two things: - Is the FreeBSD box set to act as a router (packet forwarding on)? If another machine behind the BSD box can connect to the Internet it would answer that question. - Is the FreeBSD box set as the default router in the OS X box' settings? To which I'll add that it was not obvious in the original posting whether or not the FreeBSD system had two NICs or whether everything was connected to the hub/switch including cable modem. Walter said the firewall was disabled. So I'm guessing he is a long way from getting the Mac connected. Would be surprised if he has more than one IP address from his ISP (earthlink?), which would be required without NAT. And the firewall is needed to apply the divert rule to get NAT. In setting up my firewall I found this URL very handy: http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/ Specifically is this one which I believe was the most help: http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/ipfw.html -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] = The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Mac can't connect to Internet
I had actually tried it with the firewall enabled previously, but because that had not worked either, had disabled hoping it would work after (mis-?)reading a post here. But it seems now that I failed to recompile the kernel with IPFIREWALL and IPDIVERT, so I'll check back once that's done and tested. (Fwiw, the configuration I'm trying to implement is: Cable-Modem = FBSD = hub = Mac, PC, etc.) Walter David Kelly wrote: On Tuesday 22 October 2002 01:24 pm, Kevin Stevens wrote: Two things: - Is the FreeBSD box set to act as a router (packet forwarding on)? If another machine behind the BSD box can connect to the Internet it would answer that question. - Is the FreeBSD box set as the default router in the OS X box' settings? To which I'll add that it was not obvious in the original posting whether or not the FreeBSD system had two NICs or whether everything was connected to the hub/switch including cable modem. Walter said the firewall was disabled. So I'm guessing he is a long way from getting the Mac connected. Would be surprised if he has more than one IP address from his ISP (earthlink?), which would be required without NAT. And the firewall is needed to apply the divert rule to get NAT. In setting up my firewall I found this URL very handy: http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/ Specifically is this one which I believe was the most help: http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/ipfw.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Mac can't connect to Internet
On Tuesday 22 October 2002 07:55 pm, Walter wrote: I had actually tried it with the firewall enabled previously, but because that had not worked either, had disabled hoping it would work after (mis-?)reading a post here. But it seems now that I failed to recompile the kernel with IPFIREWALL and IPDIVERT, so I'll check back once that's done and tested. (Fwiw, the configuration I'm trying to implement is: Cable-Modem = FBSD = hub = Mac, PC, etc.) Is probably best to compile those into the kernel but IPFW will be kldload(1)'ed by the /etc/rc.* scripts if enabled. As for divert, I don't remember. Custom kernel is a sure thing. On reboot, start by proving the connection between Mac and FreeBSD works. Then FreeBSD to ISP. Then work on Mac thru FreeBSD to ISP. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] = The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Mac can't connect to Internet
On Friday, October 18, 2002, at 01:21 PM, Mark Thomas wrote: At 11:31 AM 10/18/02 -0500, you wrote: I have FreeBSD, 4.7 Stable running as a gateway box, with a Debian box also on the network. The gateway is connected to a Comcast cable modem, and is running ipfw as a firewall. Both boxes can see/connect each other and the Internet. I added a Powerbook, OS X, to the local network, configured /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf. PB can ping the other boxes ok, but can't see the Internet. The other boxes can ping the PB ok. Looks like a firewall problem. If I connect the PB to the cable modem directly, the PB connects ok. It appears that the PB is trying to send UDP packets out on port 67, so I tried to open up the firewall for UDP traffic (not a good idea?) but still can't see outside the local network. Attached is my rc.firewall. In /etc/rc.conf I have firewall_type=open and added some rules to the open section in rc.firewall. What am I doing wrong? Thanks. Is the powerbook set to use the gateway as a gateway? Mark Thomas --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pbegames.com/~thomas Play by Electron Games - http://www.pbegames.com Free Trial Games This was exactly the problem. It occurred to me while I was at work. I needed to provide the ip to the gateway. Easy fix, sorry for the noise, thanks for the reply. Also sorry for the formatting of this if it's screwed up. Michael Heyes To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
