Your ifconfig shows no loop back device (an "lo" entry should show up in
a ifconfig), is this the case, or did you leave out?
Alex V Flinsch wrote:
>
> On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, you wrote:
>
> >
> > > Machine 1 - windows1 ip address of 192.168.1.1
> > > Machine 2 - linux1 ip address of 192.168.1.1
> >
> > Is this a mistype? Check 'ifconfig eth0' on Linux and 'winipcfg' on Windows
> > to see what each thinks it's IP is.
> >
>
> Yes that was a typo,
> the corrected numbers are
> Machine 1 - windows1 ip address of 192.168.1.1
> Machine 2 - linux1 ip address of 192.168.1.2
>
> > > /etc/hosts
> > > 192.168.1.2 localhost.localdomain linux1
> > > 192.168.1.1 windows1 upstairs
> > > 192.168.1.2 linux1 basement
> >
> > That first line should read:
> >
> > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
> >
>
> I fixed that
>
> > else you'll find that some things break.
> >
> > > Found Macronix 98715 PMAC at I/O 0xe400.
> > > tulip.c:v0.89H 5/23/98 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > eth0: Macronix 98715 PMAC at 0xe400, 00 80 c6 f8 94 97, IRQ 11.
> >
> > Could you post the output of 'ifconfig eth0' and 'route -n'?
> >
> Here it is:
> [root@localhost alex]# ifconfig eth0
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:C6:F8:94:97
> inet addr:192.168.1.2 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
> Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe400
>
> [root@localhost alex]# route -n
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
> 192.168.1.2 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 eth0
> 206.115.158.168 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0
> 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
> 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
> 0.0.0.0 206.115.158.168 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 ppp0
>
> Would I be correct in thinking that the 192.168.1.0 in the above
> destinations should be something else (line 192.168.1.1 ?) or am I completely
> off base?
>
> --
> Alex
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Brett Jones
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