Re: networking in hurd

[Neal H Walfield]

> I have followed Neals guide  and did the following command (the address i put 
> in was the address my linux partition was assigned) .In return my i eithere 
> get no response i.e the cursor doesnt accept any keyboard input or it does 
> return but when i try to ping nothing happens.

Is this true even if you try to ping yourself?  What about the gateway?
> 
> settrans -fgap /servers/socket/2 /hurd/pfinet -i eth0 \
> -a 10.100.106.25 -g 10.100.106.254 -m 255.255.255.0

Just for laughs, can you try using 255.0.0.0 as your netmask.

> Nevertheless if i somewhat do a loopback as follow I can ping myself. Any 
> advice?

When you say ping yourself, you mean you can ping the external ip, not
127.1, right?

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