On Wed, 7 Aug 2013, Larry Linder wrote:
Not really the place for this but I need some neural help.
New prototype system for SL 6.4 -=20
Installed as a custom install - so we can get disks labeled as we need them.
Set up everything but could not access the Internet. Since this is a new=
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Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3, AMD quad core, 16G of dram and a couple of TByte=20
disks.
Used the Ethernet install tool on GNOME and it all looked good - addresses=
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checked, router, gateway etc.
When I ran ping 192.168.0.1 - address of our router
=46rom 192.168.0.111 icmp_seq=3D1 Destination Host Unreachable
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"insufficient memory" error
The second time I ran "ping"it gave the same result but no memory error.
Added a known good 10/100 Ethernet board and used next address and the exac=
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same result. Used eth1 for new board and eth0 for the MB Ethernet.
3 rd attempt was an install - upgrade with command line
linux - asknetwork
Set this up as it asked with offset address of 192.168.0.112,mask,gateway &=
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metric =3D 1 reboot and same result.
This appears to be some kind of Firewall problem. In SL5.8 you had the=20
option of setting it promiscuous and then it all worked and it was easy to=
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add the required firewall protections. But this network is inside the pla=
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so we do not check everything.
Would like to turn Firewall stuff off to see if problem goes away but could=
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find little info on it .
I am convinced that HW is good, tested cable drop and was able to connect i=
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to another box and Ethernet worked.
4. Next will be an install with a live CD and see if we can make the=20
connection with it.
Any ideas as to where to look or how to disable security stuff.
Thank You=20
Larry Linder
What does "ifconfig" show?
-Connie Sieh
