Good Morning again,
I was asked some question about the way my network was set up. This is the
information it gave me.
I know something is wrong, but not sure what. I did go though some of the network
help on redhat.com, but
the 3howto was down.
S
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On 6/14/2000 at 9:14 AM Robert Glover wrote:
>> Good Evening Group,
>>
>[ snip ]
>>
>> I have a DSL line, and the windoze box that I have see's the net OK. I can not
>even see
>> the box from within my own network.
>>
>> So my question is (well the best I can do with my limited knowledge.) IS WHY? I
>ran
>> netcfg and put in the information for the network. If I run netstat -a it tells me
>that I have
>> an IP address and the name of the box. ifconfig has also been run. It tells me
>the best
>> that I can tell everything is OK.
>>
>> So HELP........... If you tell me something needs to be done, I can do most things
>> from memory. If not, please give me kind of a step by step of what you need done.
>> I have set up a named.conf file, also a hosts file. I think that I have set up all
>the files I need.
>>
>> One question first, is there an issue with the nic card on this box. I think it is
>an 82XX card.
>>
>> Steven
>
>Well, in your case I would suspect routing. Did you set up a
>(default) route? If you continue to have problems, include more
>information like:
>
>0. Did you read the NET-3-HOWTO?
Tried this... But the server states that is an 404 error....
>1. When you say ping, what did you ping?
I did a ping box name.
>2. Do you have a hub? Are both the windoze and Linux PC's on the LAN
>at the same time? Can they ping each other?
Yes, I have a hub, Yes both are on the same lan at the same time. No I can not ping
each other.
>3. What does the output of ifconfig look like.
Lots of information:
eth0 Link encap Ethernet HWaddres Mac address 00:A0:C9:XX:XX:XX
inet address (Currect IP_) Bcast: An IP address that is not mine
Mask 255.255.255.248
RX Packets: 119 errors: 0 dropped: 0 overruns:0 Frame:0
TX Packets:0 " " " "
colisions:0 txqueuelen:0x2800
lo Link encap Local Loopback
inet address 127.0.0.1 Mask 255.0.0.0
RX Packets: 104 errors: 0 dropped: 0 overruns:0 Frame:0
TX Packets:104 " " " "
colisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>4. What does the output of the route command look like?
216.233.X.X * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 eth0
216.233.X.X * 255.255.255.248 U " " " "
127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U " " " lo
>5. What does the output of lsmod look like? This will help determine
>which module(driver) is being loaded for your NIC.
eepro100 12272 1 (autoclean)
scsi card
>
>This will go a long way in helping diagnose the problem. And who
>knows: maybe before you get down to number 5, you'll have figured it
>out all by yourself.
>
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