if you reboot your RH8 your ifconfig -a output show your 10.x.x.x IP o you must run ifconfig lo YOUR-IP after rebooting your RH8?
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: > 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 > > > > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list ===== -- Manuel Aróstegui Linux user 200896 ___________________________________________________ Yahoo! Sorteos - http://loteria.yahoo.es Juega a la Lotería Primitiva sin salir de casa -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
