RE: [expert] Network problem

2001-11-28 Thread Richard Bown (QMW)
from 50 ohm cable linking between pc's just as well as apart from 2 ports all have radios on the end ! cya -Original Message- From: Pierre Fortin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 8:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Network problem Co

Re: [expert] Network problem

2001-11-28 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 15:52 -0500, Asheesh Laroia wrote: > I think you can use that netgear card via the "tulip" driver. > > -- Asheesh. No, actually it's the natsemi.o (National Semiconductor). I use it and everything works and I'm a happy camper after all :) wobo -- "... and anyway, an htm

Re: [expert] Network problem

2001-11-28 Thread Asheesh Laroia
I think you can use that netgear card via the "tulip" driver. -- Asheesh. On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 28. November 2001 17:22 schrieben Sie: > > "Richard Bown (QMW)" wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > I'm waiting to hear back from Wolfgang on the list of things to > > v

Re: [expert] Network problem

2001-11-28 Thread Pierre Fortin
ECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 5:22 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [expert] Network problem > > "Richard Bown (QMW)" wrote: > > > [snip] > > I'm waiting to hear back from Wolfgang on the list of things to verify... > > Until a

Re: [expert] Network problem

2001-11-28 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
OK, I'm answering to my own mail b/c there's an update: > Right now I got a cheap NIC called "Netgear FA311 Fast Ethernet PCI > Card". Problem is, it comes with Linux drivers (!) but only for Red > Hat 6.x and the given files will not compile b/c the makefile is > counting on kgcc. Duh... So I ca

Re: [expert] Network problem

2001-11-28 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
Am Mittwoch, 28. November 2001 17:22 schrieben Sie: > "Richard Bown (QMW)" wrote: > > [snip] > I'm waiting to hear back from Wolfgang on the list of things to > verify... > > Until a "ping -br " which bypasses the routing table > actually makes it to the other machine (basic connectivity), > rout

RE: [expert] Network problem

2001-11-28 Thread Richard Bown (QMW)
EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Network problem "Richard Bown (QMW)" wrote: > [snip] I'm waiting to hear back from Wolfgang on the list of things to verify... Until a "ping -br " which bypasses the routing table actually makes it to the other machine (basic connecti

Re: [expert] Network problem

2001-11-28 Thread Pierre Fortin
"Richard Bown (QMW)" wrote: > [snip] I'm waiting to hear back from Wolfgang on the list of things to verify... Until a "ping -br " which bypasses the routing table actually makes it to the other machine (basic connectivity), routing tables changes are not going to help (unless the network code i

RE: [expert] Network problem

2001-11-28 Thread Richard Bown (QMW)
is 10.0.n.n If the host address is dynamically assigned , a route from the host to each ethernet port needs to be entered and the routing beyound HTH -Original Message- From: Pierre Fortin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 4:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Su

Re: [expert] Network problem

2001-11-28 Thread Pierre Fortin
"Richard Bown (QMW)" wrote: > > Hi all, > It would help Wolfgang if you could send the routing table on both machines ! >From Wolfgang's *first* post: > Desktop: > 217.5.98.14 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0 > 10.0.0.00.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 >

RE: [expert] Network problem

2001-11-27 Thread Richard Bown (QMW)
2001 7:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Network problem Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > > Am Dienstag, 27. November 2001 17:12 schrieben Sie: > > OK... give us the results of: > > > > ping -br 255.255.255.255 > > ping -br 192.168.0.255 >

Re: [expert] Network problem

2001-11-27 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
Am Dienstag, 27. November 2001 17:12 schrieben Sie: > OK... give us the results of: > > ping -br 255.255.255.255 > ping -br 192.168.0.255 Desktop (disconnected from internet) [root@molch wobo]# ping -br 255.255.255.255 connect: Network is unreachable ifconfig (disconnected from internet) s

Re: [expert] Network problem

2001-11-27 Thread Pierre Fortin
Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > > Am Dienstag, 27. November 2001 17:12 schrieben Sie: > > OK... give us the results of: > > > > ping -br 255.255.255.255 > > ping -br 192.168.0.255 > > Desktop (disconnected from internet) > > [root@molch wobo]# ping -br 255.255.255.255 > connect: Network is unrea

Re: [expert] Network problem

2001-11-27 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
Am Dienstag, 27. November 2001 19:07 schrieben Sie: > by means of some power of darkness, when you connect both nics > trough the cross-cable you are are shutting the electrical signals > to a very low level, that isn't enough to keep the network > connection. > > this don't happen with the adsl

Re: [expert] Network problem

2001-11-27 Thread Jose Orlando T. Ribeiro
hello wolfgang! I've been reading your posts about your network for a few days... great problem! that is one of these that we write on the notepad to never forget what we did :-) let's go... since arp -a gives nothing, then you have no connection, but each piece in your setup (cross-cable, not

Re: [expert] Network problem

2001-11-27 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
Am Dienstag, 27. November 2001 17:12 schrieben Sie: > OK... give us the results of: > > ping -br 255.255.255.255 > ping -br 192.168.0.255 Desktop (disconnected from internet) [root@molch wobo]# ping -br 255.255.255.255 connect: Network is unreachable ifconfig (disconnected from internet) s

Re: [expert] Network problem

2001-11-27 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
Am Dienstag, 27. November 2001 15:45 schrieb Dave: > On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 09:12, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > > OK, I've spent another 3 hours, even reinstalling the whole > > desktop pc. It was a fresh installation anyway. > > > > I bought a new cross-over cable. I borrowed 2 other NICs from my > >

Re: [expert] Network problem

2001-11-27 Thread Pierre Fortin
Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > > Notebook cannot reach any other destination apart from own eth0 and > own Io > > Desktop cannot reach neither notebook address. OK... give us the results of: ping -br 255.255.255.255 ping -br 192.168.0.255 on both machines. If it works, you may something like

RE: [expert] Network problem

2001-11-27 Thread Richard Bown (QMW)
m the console command line , none of the permant routing will be lost, just what you type in , if you reboot HTH richard -Original Message- From: Wolfgang Bornath [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 4:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Network proble

Re: [expert] Network problem

2001-11-27 Thread Dave Sherman
On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 09:12, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > OK, I've spent another 3 hours, even reinstalling the whole desktop > pc. It was a fresh installation anyway. > > I bought a new cross-over cable. I borrowed 2 other NICs from my > company, > > Once again: > > Desktop has: > > eth0 10.0.

Re: [expert] Network problem

2001-11-27 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
Am Dienstag, 27. November 2001 02:47 schrieb Pierre: > PS: Here's one of my old .signature files: > > "Until you've found *and* fixed a problem, you can NOT discount > > *any* possibility; what you gratuitously discount will likely be > > the source of the problem(s)." Pierre Fortin - 199

Re: [expert] Network problem

2001-11-26 Thread Pierre Fortin
Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > > Am Montag, 26. November 2001 18:37 schrieben Sie: > > Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have a desktop and a notebook, both connected via cross-over > > > cable. > > > > > > All in all it looks ok to me. But the desktop doesn't ping the > > > notebook and

Re: [expert] Network problem

2001-11-26 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
Dave said: > Did you try the traceroute command I gave you? Here it is again: > /usr/sbin/traceroute 208.20.203.226 > > Run this in an xterm and watch the results. When your packets stop As I expected they aren't doing the first hop of the dance. > At this point, I am suspecting th

Re: [expert] Network problem

2001-11-26 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
Am Montag, 26. November 2001 18:37 schrieben Sie: > Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a desktop and a notebook, both connected via cross-over > > cable. > > > > All in all it looks ok to me. But the desktop doesn't ping the > > notebook and vice versa. The notebook can't connect to th

Re: [expert] Network problem

2001-11-26 Thread Pierre Fortin
Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a desktop and a notebook, both connected via cross-over cable. > > All in all it looks ok to me. But the desktop doesn't ping the > notebook and vice versa. The notebook can't connect to the internet. > The cable was the last resort but it's ok, I test

Re: [expert] Network problem

2001-11-26 Thread Dave Sherman
On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 05:02, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > Dave said: > > I think the next thing I would try to do is traceroute from your laptop, > > to some IP address on the internet. That way, we can see just where your > > TCP packets are getting hung up. > > First I checked that the network car

Re: [expert] Network problem

2001-11-26 Thread richard
hi just a long shot ! check /etc/sysconfig/network is forwarding set to either yes or true ?... it should be its very easy to miss regards richard On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 04:17, Dave Sherman wrote: > On Sun, 2001-11-25 at 13:42, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > > Am Sonntag, 25. November 2001 17:36

Re: [expert] Network problem

2001-11-26 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
Dave said: > As long as your desktop is connecting to the Internet ok, then we can > probably assume everything on that side is setup correctly. OK > I think the next thing I would try to do is traceroute from your laptop, > to some IP address on the internet. That way, we can see just where y

Re: [expert] Network problem

2001-11-25 Thread Dave Sherman
On Sun, 2001-11-25 at 13:42, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > Am Sonntag, 25. November 2001 17:36 schrieben Sie: > > Couple of questions for you: > > > > 1. Can you ping your own interfaces? That is, from your desktop can > > you ping each of the cards' IP addresses? Can you ping 127.0.0.1? > > Can you a

Re: [expert] Network problem

2001-11-25 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
Am Sonntag, 25. November 2001 17:36 schrieben Sie: > Couple of questions for you: > > 1. Can you ping your own interfaces? That is, from your desktop can > you ping each of the cards' IP addresses? Can you ping 127.0.0.1? > Can you also ping your laptop's card from itself (the real IP and > 127.0.

Re: [expert] Network problem

2001-11-25 Thread Dave Sherman
On Sat, 2001-11-24 at 20:38, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > Hi, > > I have a desktop and a notebook, both connected via cross-over cable. > The desktop is connected to internet via ADSL. > > Both machines run MDK 8.1 > > Desktop: > > eth0 RealTek RTL-8029 module = ne2k-pci IRQ 12 > eth1 3com

Re: [expert] Network problem: problem with 3Com card setup? [Was:can't connect via DHCP]

2001-05-23 Thread Aleksey Naumov
David, Thank you very much for your help, it took me a while to digect it, plus other things changed as well. Most importantly -- DHCP is not the source of my problem. Our computer admins assigned me a static IP address (with a subnet mask, gateway and 3 DNS servers), but the story is the same -

Re: [expert] Network problem: can't connect via DHCP

2001-05-04 Thread David Rankin
Aleksey Naumov wrote: > David, > > thank you for your help. I still can't resolve my problem (see below)... > > David Rankin wrote: > > > Aleksey Naumov wrote: > > > > > Hi, Mandrake experts! > > > > > > I've just installed Mandrake 8.0 on my PII 400MHz HP at work. My > > > computer is on a > > >

Re: [expert] Network problem: can't connect via DHCP

2001-04-28 Thread John Wolford
When it rains, it pours. Someone else just asked the exact same question. I"ve been through it myself, and so here's what i said: When i experienced that symptom (timeout), it was because my ISP required that i pass a hostname with the request: "dhcpcd -h cr843732-a" was the thing it needed. To m

Re: [expert] Network problem: can't connect via DHCP

2001-04-28 Thread Eric Krout
I'm on a similar campus, but DHCP works fine for me :-D But that doesn't help you out ; ) I suggest taking the things your Help Desk people told you about (subnet mask, IP address, etc.) and hard-coding them rather than trying to get DHCP to automatically configure your settings for you. Offhan