I don't even know where to begin debugging this one. For a long time now, I've known that there were some sites on the net that simply will not talk to me. For example, www.compaq.com, www.toshiba.com, sourceforge.net, etc. (The last one being my current pressing problem :-)
I have a small network in the house and for a long time I've had a modem hanging off my sparc box. From the sparc I could always talk to everything, but other machines on the network couldn't. Seems likely that there's a problem with my network config on the sparc or something, right? Ok, I fussed with that until I couldn't stand it anymore and I gave up. I moved the modem off the sparc and onto my linux desktop machine (running Debian 2.1). I figured this way, even if I couldn't get to those sites from the other machines on the network, at least I could get to them from there. But I can't. And I am absolutely clueless and entirely frustrated. What's worse, if I boot the desktop box into Win98, everything works just fine. If anyone has any suggestions, I'd really like to hear them. Connections to most places on the net work just fine, so I can't believe that it's simply a routing problem. Still, I'm not quite sure how to interpret these differences so here are the two routing tables. This is the output of ipconfig /all under Win98: Windows 98 IP Configuration Host Name . . . . . . . . . : eris.nwalsh.com DNS Servers . . . . . . . . : 206.72.196.10 206.72.196.14 Node Type . . . . . . . . . : Broadcast NetBIOS Scope ID. . . . . . : IP Routing Enabled. . . . . : No WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . : No NetBIOS Resolution Uses DNS : Yes 0 Ethernet adapter : Description . . . . . . . . : PPP Adapter. Physical Address. . . . . . : 44-45-53-54-00-00 DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . : Yes IP Address. . . . . . . . . : 140.186.114.232 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . : 140.186.114.232 DHCP Server . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.255 Primary WINS Server . . . . : Secondary WINS Server . . . : Lease Obtained. . . . . . . : 01 01 80 12:00:00 AM Lease Expires . . . . . . . : 01 01 80 12:00:00 AM 1 Ethernet adapter : Description . . . . . . . . : Linksys LNE100TX Fast Ethernet Adapter Physical Address. . . . . . : 00-A0-CC-E7-51-D4 DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . : No IP Address. . . . . . . . . : 140.186.114.235 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . : Primary WINS Server . . . . : Secondary WINS Server . . . : Lease Obtained. . . . . . . : Lease Expires . . . . . . . : And the routing table that works under Win98 Active Routes: Network Address Netmask Gateway Address Interface Metric 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 140.186.114.232 140.186.114.232 1 127.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 1 140.186.0.0 255.255.0.0 140.186.114.232 140.186.114.232 1 140.186.114.0 255.255.255.0 140.186.114.232 140.186.114.232 1 140.186.114.0 255.255.255.0 140.186.114.235 140.186.114.235 2 140.186.114.232 255.255.255.255 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 1 140.186.114.235 255.255.255.255 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 1 140.186.255.255 255.255.255.255 140.186.114.235 140.186.114.235 1 224.0.0.0 224.0.0.0 140.186.114.235 140.186.114.235 1 224.0.0.0 224.0.0.0 140.186.114.232 140.186.114.232 1 255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 140.186.114.232 140.186.114.232 1 The corresponding ifconfig under Linux is: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:CC:E7:51:D4 inet addr:140.186.114.235 Bcast:140.186.114.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:166 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:220 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 Interrupt:10 Base address:0x1800 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1 RX packets:398 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:398 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:140.186.114.232 P-t-P:140.186.114.3 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1006 Metric:1 RX packets:235 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:1 TX packets:183 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:10 And the routing table for Linux Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface 140.186.114.3 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0 140.186.114.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 0.0.0.0 140.186.114.3 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 ppp0 Anyone see the trouble? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | No victor believes in chance.--Nietzsche http://nwalsh.com/ |