Hi,
I did the ifconfig and route -n. and her are the results
for each computer.
Here is for host A
the ifconfig
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255
Mask:255.0.0.0
UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1
RX packets:1158 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
frame:0
TX packets:1158 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
carrier:0
collisions:0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:24:08:2B:E4
inet addr:10.0.0.1 Bcast:10.255.255.255
Mask:255.0.0.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500
Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
frame:0
TX packets:98 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
carrier:0
collisions:0
Interrupt:10 Base address:0x300
here is route -n output
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags
Metric Ref Use Iface
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0
0 2 lo
10.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0
0 2 eth0
0.0.0.0 10.255.255.254 0.0.0.0 UG 0
0 13 eth0
here it is computer B
ifconfig
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255
Mask:255.0.0.0
UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1
RX packets:32 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
frame:0
TX packets:32 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
carrier:0
collisions:0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:24:05:32:87
inet addr:10.0.0.2 Bcast:10.255.255.255
Mask:255.0.0.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500
Metric:1
RX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
frame:0
TX packets:27 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
carrier:1
collisions:0
Interrupt:10 Base address:0x300
This is route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags
Metric Ref Use Iface
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0
0 1 lo
10.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0
0 3 eth0
0.0.0.0 10.255.255.254 0.0.0.0 UG 0
0 13 eth0
What Ray Olszewski wrote earlier was all true and rigth.
Here is all the info sorry that I can't understand any of
it.
Thank you for all the help
Eric Peters
--- Ray Olszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am the person who sent you the prior request to "give
> more detail".
>
> If I follow your expanded description, the following
> things are true:
>
> 1. If both hosts A and B are running Win95, each can find
> the other.
>
> 2. If host A is running Win95 and host B is running
> Linux, each can find the
> other. (This is what I understnd you to mean by: "I can
> also in one of them
> use the other in linux as a file server.")
>
> 3. If host A and B are both running Linux, host A cannot
> find host B.
>
> If I have it right, you almost surely have networking
> misconfigured on host
> A running Linux. With that machine in Linux mode, run
> "ifconfig" and "route
> -n", and compare them to the output of the same two
> commands on host B.
>
> The "ifconfig" outpt should show an eth0 interface on
> each host. The IP
> addresses should be different (ideally, the same as the
> ones you use in
> Win95/98 modes), with the same netmask and broadcast
> address.
>
> Each should have a route to the other, reported by "route
> -n".
>
> Hope this helps. If you can't interpret the output of
> ifconfig and route,
> feel free to port it (for both hosts).
>
> At 10:12 PM 7/20/99 -0400, Eric P. wrote:
> >Hi,
> >I've asked this question part of a list of questions
> >before but I got a request to give more detail. So here
> it
> >is in full technicolor glory.
> >
> >The problem is that one of the computers can't recognize
> >the network at all when running linux. They're both in
> dual
> >boot. In win95 and 98 they both recognize each other and
> >can communicate. I can also in one of them use the other
> in
> >linux as a file server.
> >
> >The problem is when I try to ping the other it always
> gives
> >me either the error network is unreachable or I get a
> 100%
> >packet loss.
> >
> >There is nothing between the 2 comps. they are directly
> >connected through two Ethernet3 3 com cards using cat 5
> >wire.
> >
> >My two computers are both running RH 5.2.
> >
> >One of them is a 166 Mhz P1 with 32 mb of ram and a 2.5
> gig
> >HD (This one has the problem in linux)
> >
> >The other is a P2 350 128 mb of Ram 6.4 gig HD 1 gig
> given
> >to linux.
>
> ------------------------------------"Never tell me the
> odds!"---
> Ray Olszewski --
> Han Solo
> Palo Alto, CA 94303-3603 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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