I'm a Linux networking newbie, but I've spent quite a few hours googling and
going through howto's so thought I would now try here. I have a redhat 9 box
and a redhat 8 laptop. The redhat 9 is online and working find (gets it's ip
address from the cable modem.) I've been trying to add the laptop.
Firstly, I seem to have a few problems getting the laptops card to work. The
right device is detected in the network device control util. However, tryign to
activate the card fails, as does /etc/rc.id/init.d/network start (error:
Determining IP information for eth0.... failed.) I can bring it up with
ifconfig, which subsequently reports that everything is active. Why would the
network start call fail, yet ifconfig appear to work?
Anyway, even after it appears to be working, the two machines can't ping each
other. (Either pinging the dhcp assigned address, or the one obtained after
adding a second interface. Output of ifconfig is included (IP address ommitted):
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:21:C6:EF:63
inet addr:81.x.x.139 Bcast:255.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:23499 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8355 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:5 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:20813589 (19.8 Mb) TX bytes:677925 (662.0 Kb)
Interrupt:5 Base address:0xd400
eth0:0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:21:C6:EF:63
inet addr:10.0.0.2 Bcast:10.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:23499 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8355 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:5 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:20813589 (19.8 Mb) TX bytes:677925 (662.0 Kb)
Interrupt:5 Base address:0xd400
running 'arp -a' on the laptop reports 10.0.0.2, but I'm not sure what arp is
telling me. My guess is that the laptop ethernet card is not being bought up
fully - does this sound feasible? If not, anything else I could do to debug?
Or, any more info you need?
Thanks in advance
Ben
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