ed0 does not like 0x280 If you are having trouble getting your NIC going and it’s an ed card (e.g. ed0, ed1, etc), this article may help. The basis for this short blurb lies in New NIC was causing network problems but was again brought to my attention by someone else having the same problem. […]
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Big Brother is watching you (and your network) As mentioned in the documentation, Big Brother is a a web-based systems and network monitoring and notification system. For more information, see http://MacLawran.ca/bb-dnld/features.html. Note: Big Brother requires a web server. So install it on a box which already has apache installed. See the Apache topics for more
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New NIC was causing network problems I recently obtained a new box (buff, named after a cat owned by someone in an IRC channel I frequent). I installed a brand new NIC in it but found that the box would drop off the net. In fact, so would my gateway. This article discusses that problem
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Backing up FreeBSD onto a Windows NT Workstation I have a Windows NT workstation. And it contains a DAT drive. So this topic is near and dear to my heart. So thanks to Chris for writing this article. 27 November 1999 – I’ve added my backup script to the end of the article. How to
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DSL/Cable modem references This article contains a list of references for cable modem and DSL setup. Add your comments if you know of other resources. This site Well, it’s all over the place and I haven’t listed it yet. If you’d like to help, please compile me a list and add it to the comments,
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ADSL – changing the modem Tonight my modem was changed from an NEC to a Nokia M10. In the process, my firewall went from having a public address (e.g. 210.55.210.87) to having a private address (e.g. 192.168.0.59). This makes it very difficult to provide http, telnet, dns, mail, and other services. I’m in the process
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connecting to the network This section deals with setting up a Network Interface Card (NIC) and making it work with FreeBSD. With a working NIC, your computer can communicate with other computers on a network. Matching hardware and software In order for the software to use the hardware, it must know something about it.
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Adding a second network card (and compiling a kernel) My FreeBSD box will act as a gateway. It will do this using two network cards. One card (ed0) will talk to the outside world. The other card (ed1) will talk to my subnet.. The system needs to know about the new device. There are two
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