On Wed, 10 Dec 2025, Russell Senior wrote:
For each device, show the output of:
hostname && ip a && ping -c1 <other> && ip n
where <other> is the other host name.
As root:
# hostname && ip a && ping -c1 && caddis && ip n
salmo
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group
default qlen 1000
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 ::1/128 scope host
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group
default qlen 1000
link/ether 0c:9d:92:83:6e:27 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.55.1/24 brd 192.168.55.255 scope global eth0
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 fe80::e9d:92ff:fe83:6e27/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
Usage: ping [-aAbBdDfhLnOqrRUvV] [-c count] [-i interval] [-I interface]
[-m mark] [-M pmtudisc_option] [-l preload] [-p pattern] [-Q tos]
[-s packetsize] [-S sndbuf] [-t ttl] [-T timestamp_option]
[-w deadline] [-W timeout] [hop1 ...] destination
On the laptop I run the command as root in a v.t. When I try highlighting it
and copying output to a text file in anther v.t. it won't copy.
But, the laptop can ssh into the desktop; it's the other direction that
won't work.
Rich
