Elizabeth Jones wrote: > Hi - I just installed mandrake 7.1 on a new box. I am trying to > duplicate a box that died last week and reusing the same server > name and IP address. But I clearly have something set wrong. I > can see this new box from the network and I can telnet and ftp > in to it, but I can't get out to the network when I'm on it. > I have a PC plugged in to the same subnet, and I used the same > subnet mask on the linux box that is used for the PC. but on > the PC I have a default gateway, I put this in as the default > gateway on the linux box as well. I guess I'm missing the > broadcast address? any ideas on how I would determine what > that should be?
I'm a Linux newbie, also, but I'd try: * pinging the gateway by ip address (from the new box) * pinging something on the Internet by domain name If the first works and the second doesn't, I'd suspect that your DNS server addresses are not set (in the new PC). Re: Broadcast address -- tell us the ip and subnet mask on the new box -- IIRC, the broadcast address is (in complicated terms) the ip address of the new box, masked by its netmask, and everything in the netmask replaced by binary ones (or is it zeros). If you tell us the ip and subnet mask, I or someone else can tell you the broadcast address. Randy Kramer
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