Recently I had similar problems. Nothing worked despite the fact that
I have edited all the files. I finally did an "ifdown" followed
"ifup". Everything came good after that.
When you're grasping at straws after struggling for a few hours with
you setup,.......
On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Dan Egli fingered:
> Question for you all (I'm new to this list, so forgive if this isn't the
> usual format or question style)
>
> I just installed Mandrake on a box at our office. Install went
> beautifully. After install, I verified the network settings (Gateway,
> netmask, IP, name servers, ect...)
>
> Everything looks exactly the same as it does on other linux boxes (except
> for IP, of course). But everytime I try to ping ANYTHING, I get an error,
> network is unreachable.
>
> The nic is configured and the module is loaded. ifconfig shows eth0 up
> (3c59x module for anyone who cares. Card is 3C905C-TX).
>
> Anyone got any ideas? I've checked and rechecked. Nothing. Network
> unreachable sounds like a config problem to me, but I cann't think of what
> else to check. I know the settings were wrong on install (my fat fingers
> entered 209 as the first octet vs 206 which it should have been) but I
> corrected it everywhere I could find in Linuxconf.
>
> I am very lost here. Any help is appreciated!
--
Ronald
