OpenBSD - Internet works, local net fails

[slambo]

So I finally got OpenBSD working on my old 486 box, which I intend to use as our home LAN firewall. I was following along in "Building Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls" and managed to get out over my PnP internal modem to our ISP. I was able to ping servers on the internet without any problems.

The LAN, however, is a different issue. I've got a D-Link DE-220 installed and set to non-PnP to avoid those pesky "device timeout" errors. However, alhtough ifconfig shows ne1 as UP and RUNNING, I'm not able to connect in either direction to the rest of my LAN. I can ping lo without error, and the lights flash properly when I try to ping this box from another box, but no connection is established.

I've tried the steps that are listed in the FAQ to no avail (if I can ever get it to connect, I will probably submit some updates to make the networking section easier to read by newbies). Even using ping -I to specify the interface to use doesn't see anything on the network. I've read in the mailing list archives about an even number of success/failure stories with various D-Link cards, but I'm not so certain that the card is the problem (although I've got a 3c529 to try tonight). It seems like I'm missing a config setting somewhere, but I'm at a loss to identify it.

AdThanksVance,

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Sean Lamb
"A day without laughter is a day wasted." -- Groucho Marx

[slambo]

Just to let everyone know, I found the resolution to my problem, as noted above. I installed the 3Com card in place of the D-Link card that I was using earlier. That didn't work either, in itself, because the problem wasn't in my server box.

The other box that I was trying to talk to was a Win98 box on a 2-box ehternet (no hub, since there's only two boxen). The other box was set to obtain an IP address automatically on the NIC interface. Once I gave the interface an explicit IP addy, I was able to ping in both directions, and I even got Samba working within 5 minutes of the pkg_add.

Now, it's on to getting things setup for firewalling...

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Sean Lamb
"A day without laughter is a day wasted." -- Groucho Marx

[Glaurung]

Just a little question, how did you get ppp to work? Did you follow the steps in the faq? I get a lot of errors just from following the faq.

[slambo]

Actually, I followed the steps in "Building Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls" ( http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm ). I connect through an internal Cardinal 33.6 modem (PnP even!), and I haven't installed X windows since this box will run headless once everything is setup.

Basically, I set the DNS settings to my ISPs DNS during setup, then edited /etc/ppp/ppp.conf to match my ISP.

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Sean Lamb
"A day without laughter is a day wasted." -- Groucho Marx