OK. A couple of things:
1. jerry2 was right about the netmask being wrong. A netmask has to consist
of a (binary) sequence of 1s followed by a sequence of 0s, with no mixing,
and 244 (= 11110100 binary) doesn't follow the pattern. I would guess it
needs to be either 248 or 240 -- probably 240, to be consistent with the
broadcast address in your ifconfig output (this would make the local network
consist of 192.168.1.1 to .14, with .0 the network address and .15 the
broadcast address).
2. Even on Windows computers, the entries you describe make no sense. The
netmask is still invalid, and the gateway still loops back to localhost. You
need to tell us how these computers are connecting to the Internet. Is it
possible that they use ppp, in which case the addresses and routes will be
rewritten during LCP negotiation?
At 01:47 PM 3/8/00 -0600, Michael Stearne wrote [new portions only]:
...
>> All the addresses you
>> are using are private addresses, so somewhere upstream from you, there must
>> be a gateway that does some sort of NAT. Your use of 127.0.0.2 as a gateway
>> is sufficiently unusual
>
>All I have for refernce are windows computers. Under TCP/IP they use
>192.168.1.x for the IP, 255.255.255.244 for the Subnet Mask, and 127.0.0.2 for
>the Default Gateway. I have 208.137.248.4 as a nameserver. That is all I
have to
>go on.
>
>I can ping all the computers that are around me (physically) -
>192.168.1.2,192.168.1.7,etc.
...
>> All I can suggest here is that you post a more complete description of the
>> network setup as you understand it. Include your interface configuration
>> (ifconfig -a) and your routing table (route -n).
>
>route -n
>192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
>
>ifconfig -a
>inet addr: 192.168.1.12 Bcast: 192.168.1.15 Mask: 255.255.255.0
>UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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