Subject: Re: network help Date: Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 04:30:30PM +0000
In reply to:G. Kapetanios Quoting G. Kapetanios([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Following your suggestion I pinged my gateway by IP rsther than name. > The thing hang after printing a line. So maybe what you say about the card > not working correctly is right. > > I was wondering: Win98 has no problem with recognizing and using > the card. Why should Linux ? > As this is not my computer tha card is there to stay. > Additonally I would like to use the box as a server for math application > to be accessed through telnet only . > So I need to be sure that the card is the problem and if so remove Deibian > Do you know any methods that can tell me fpor certain that the card is to > blame ? > Thanks again for your help > George > George I assume that your trying to network a linux box to a Win95 box. If that is so I found that if I put in a gateway on my Linux box my network didn't work at all. I changed the network script to /sbin/ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} broadcast ${BROADCAST} netmask${NETMASK} /sbin/route add -net ${NETWORK} netmask ${NETMASK} # for 2/2/x Kernels then route -n VT1 root-Deb-Slink:~# route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:05:3D:34:51 inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:646 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:657 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Collisions:0 Interrupt:9 Base address:0x6200 HTH Wayne -- "APL is a write-only language. I can write programs in APL, but I can't read any of them." -- Roy Keir _______________________________________________________ Wayne T. Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>