[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I did just today download an install Ubuntu on my laptop. a few days > ago the laptop worked fine, then it got sick with one of those lovely > (sarcastic) PC viruses. I used my stable + good Fedora 7 deskside system > to download Ubuntu 7.10, burned a cdrom and installed Ubuntu. > I am have been allocated 8 IP addresses by my DSL providor. I setup the > network on the laptop just the same as it was when running MS Windows. > same IP address, DNS, broadcast, netmast, etc -- well Ubuntu is not > able to connect to any computer other than my Fedora 7 system since they > are on the same network. > > I would be grateful for suggestions on what is different with > the networking of Fedora 7 and Ubunto 7.10? And how to configure > Ubuntu correctly. Debian/Ubuntu is brand new to me. The interface is > configured UP, it is eth0. Both my Fedora system and the Ubuntu one > use the same IP address for the default gateway. > > I would be glad to get into the specifics in private email > should someone offer assistance.
On first hearing, it sounds like it's not a ubuntu problem (since you can talk to the f7 box). I presume you can (say) ping from each to the other? A few more words describing the symptom would be most useful. Can you ping out by IP? Can you resolve DNS names? And maybe you could describe the topology a bit more. I'm visualizing that you have a dsl modem with a built-in switch, and you have your 2 computers (with static public IPs) plugged into that device. Or maybe there's a separate switch? Or even a combination router/firewall/switch configured to not do any NAT? Have you checked for some silly configuration typo by looking at the output of ifconfig eth0 route -n cat/etc/resolv.conf rather than just assuming your config produced what you thought you told it to? ;-) Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
