Some quick thoughts: On Friday 12 January 2007 10:09, Dale wrote: > Hi > > I have done this before. Maybe something has changed because I can not > get it to work now. My main rig is called smoker. The second rig is > currently booted off the CD. I plan to use my main rig to sync and get > > distfiles off of. This is off smokers /etc/conf.d/net file: > > config_eth0=( "192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast > > 192.168.0.255" ) > > More info from smoker: > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:01:53:81:00:E7 > > inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > > RX packets:34 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > > TX packets:205 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 > > RX bytes:16458 (16.0 Kb) TX bytes:5670 (5.5 Kb) > > Interrupt:10 Base address:0xc000 > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # ping 192.168.0.2 > > PING 192.168.0.2 (192.168.0.2) 56(84) bytes of data. > > From 192.168.0.1 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable > > From 192.168.0.1 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable > > From 192.168.0.1 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable > > > > --- 192.168.0.2 ping statistics --- > > 5 packets transmitted, 0 received, +3 errors, 100% packet loss, time > > 4009ms > > , pipe 3 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # > > If it helps any, I see traffic going over the network in gkrellm.
So, we know that packets go out, but we don't know if they are returned. We also don't know if in case they are returned your iptables knock them out. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # iptables -L > > Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) > > target prot opt source destination > > ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:http > > DROP all -- anywhere anywhere state > > INVALID,NEW > > > > Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT) > > target prot opt source destination > > DROP all -- anywhere anywhere state > > INVALID,NEW > > > > Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT) > > target prot opt source destination > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # Try again after you take iptables down, /etc/init.d/iptables stop, so that you eliminate one factor at a time. > Route returns loopback and that is all. Looks suspicious to me. It > doesn't have iptables installed on the CD. I guess there are none. > > Oh, to test the cable, I set both to the same address. When I tried to > bring up the network, it gave me a error that the address was in use or > something like that. It saw it at least. > > Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong? It has to be me. It almost > always is. What does this give you: # cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_all HTH. -- Regards, Mick
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