On Fri, 14 May 1999, Dale Scheetz wrote: > From: Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > Subject: Ethernet newbee failure > > I have added Ethernet cards to two machines, one my Linux box, the other > my partner's Win'95 machine. To reduce the configuration problems, I > installed Debian on the second drive of my partner's machine, reducing the > problem to two Linux machines connected through the same hardware. > > Machine one is 10.1.1.10 and machine two is 10.1.1.20. > > >From either machine I can ping that machine but not the other one. Both > cards seem to be working, but I have no network connection. I set them > both up with ifconfig and route add, and when I do an ifconfig, I get the > following: >...
Looks ok. A bit unfamiliar, but ok. You forgot to tell the route. Must be a problem there. > didn't set them. It isn't clear that this is the failure either. > > I'm pretty ignorant about this stuff, but I think I did everything I need > to have a LAN but it doesn't work. Any ideas? > > All informative flames appreciated ;-) You should probably use 192.168.1.10 and 192.168.1.20 as ip adresses and use a netmask of 255.255.255.0. Also please try ftp://mirjam.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/pub/debian/network*.deb (you also need the dpkgconfig*.deb file there) in two or three days time. May the Source be with you. Goswin