On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 08:25, Lule George William wrote:

> Tried it with a straight through, crossover and also a rollover(don't 
> laugh at this last one,
I didn't :-)
>  I am trying everything to be sure) and it still 
> behaves the same. 

Maintain the crossed cable between the router and your PC.
What is your network setup like [what's connected to what and how]? if
possible do a small ascii diagram.

> When I reboot the machine, the LED on the router then goes on but on 
> pinging, I still get the same response.
> Seeing this I put a switch in between the two. The switch sees both the 
> router and the NIC fine but on ping, this time I got no response 
> instead of the other network unreachable error.

>From where are you pinging and what are you pinging?
Can the Suse box ping both its own interfaces?
Can the Suse box ping the router? vice-versa?

>  In this state, I 
> accidentally left the ping command running and went to check out on 
> someone and the router replied to only two pings out of 1002 ping(don't 
> ask me the percentage it calculated. Its embarrasing), but that is the 
> situation right now.

What is the router saying? [the logs]

> 
> > On Wednesday 21 July 2004 04:43, Lule George William wrote:
> > <snip>
> > > SuSEfirewall2 a million times but still no luck. I have disabled 
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